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 187
N DOMESTIC ARCHITECTURE a projecting saloon, occupying a place of honor in the centre of a garden front,opposite the entrance. Created by Le Vau at Vaux-le-Vicomte under Louis XIV,the type, with an elliptical salon, was adopted almost universally in France in thestyle of Louis XV, and became the… … Figure 122. Swan house, Dorchester, MassachusettsFrom a measured drawing by Ogden Codman tecture Improved (1755) and Select Architecture (1759). Made classical byusing a circular room surrounded by columns and surmounted by a saucer dome,it was adopted by James Paine in his unexecuted design for…
Architecture, Domestic · Architecture, Colonial
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