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 200
USES OF THE EARLY REPUBLIC drawings in 1803.1 The scheme was too purely formal in its balance to meetwith favor until ideals of abstract unity had become established through thestrengthening of classical influence generally. Not until after central balance anda central dome had become common in the… … Figure 135. Sketches for a house for Robert Liston. Benjamin Henry Latrobe, 1800From the original drawings in the possession of Ferdinand C. Latrobe in shape, often lighted from above—became numerous. A magnificent examplewas Belmont, Nashville, Tennessee, designed by William Strickland about…
Architecture, Domestic · Architecture, Colonial
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