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 203
C ARCHITECTURE forerunner of the Poplar Forest scheme, of a casino in circular form: a round centralroom with a colonnade encircling it part-way, the remaining segments havingtwo elliptical rooms inscribed in them.1 McComb devised a scheme closely simi-lar.2 Latrobe designed for the British… … From a photograph by H. l\ Cook Figure 138. Arlington, Alexandria County, Virginia such was erected, the Enoch Robinson house at Spring Hill, Somerville, Massachu-setts. On the lower floor were an oval parlor and a circular library; up-stairs thebedrooms opened on a central rotunda.4 It was long…
Architecture, Domestic · Architecture, Colonial
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