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 186
all of the porticos omitted, and with other concessions to economy or use.Two, however, retained an exterior dome: Mereworth Castle, by Colin Campbell,following Palladios plate of the villa for Almerico with the utmost literalnessthroughout; Lord Burlingtons villa at Chiswick, otherwise less… … Figure 121. Jonathan Mason house, BostonFrom an old lithograph. Courtesy of Ogden Codman 1783), apparently for a Governors house there, is the quarter-plan of such a villarotonda (figure 116).1 Although somewhat reduced in scale and showing but a sin-gle frontispiece of four columns, it follows…
Architecture, Domestic · Architecture, Colonial
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