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 188
REPUBLIC building Monticello (figure 52) just before the Revolution. It was taken up inde-pendently by others, who were the first to employ the curved projection. This ap-pears in both the lateral facades of the Woodlands, as remodelled in 1788: a housewhich, although somewhat limited in the… … Figure 123. Swan house, DorchesterCourtesy of Ogden Codman entrance is to a circular vestibule surrounded by columns, with niches on the diag-onals. To the left, beyond the stairs, and to the right, are the great drawing-roomand the dining-room, one elliptical, the other with semicircular ends,…
Architecture, Domestic · Architecture, Colonial
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