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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 213

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house, with its peristyle of tall Corinthian columns (figure 143). Less familiar arethe equally numerous houses of the sort in the North, especially in towns whichhad great growth in the second quarter of the century. The work of Elias Carter,builder and architect, of Worcester, Massachusetts,… … Figure 14S. Dyckman house, New York CityCourtesy of Alexander McMillan Welch even number of openings with an odd number of columns. The arrangement couldhave been familiar to the more cultivated and studious architects of the time inengravings of the Basilica at Paestum. A model house with five…

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