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 197
mpshire, was substantially similar in mass, exceptfor a veranda with light columns around the circular bay. The octagonal bow also appeared in other combinations. The study of thesespecially fascinated Jefferson, as his ideal sketches reveal.1 At Farmington, 1803,and Ampthill in Cumberland County,… … Figure 132. Elevation of the Villa Rotonda for AlmericoFrom Palladio, Book II, plate 15 show also a central octagon bay in the rear. The type became a popular one inRichmond, witness a description of houses there in the middle of the century:Others appear to be triangles made of three two story…
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