Domestic architecture of the American colonies and of the early republic (1922)
Kimball, Fiske, 1888-1955, New York. Metropolitan Museum of Art. Committee on Education · New York, C. Scribner's Sons · leaf 178
French at the begin-ning of the century, brought many improvements in the provisions of houses afterthe Revolution. The old scheme of a transverse stair hall dividing four nearlyequal rooms of uncertain destination, lingered on until 1800 or even later, but ittended to give place to more flexible… … Figure 115. Plan of the Villa Rotonda for AlmericoFrom Palladio, Book II, plate 14 AMERICAN DOMESTIC ARCHITECTURE room to its specific use proceeded much further than in Colonial houses. No otherdocument is so enlightening here as the memorandum prepared by Jefferson in1792 detailing the…
Architecture, Domestic · Architecture, Colonial
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