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 215
ions (figure 144A). The Hermitage at Savannah had perhaps thefinest ensemble of plantation buildings, grouped about a shaded lawn dominated bythe house. To left and right were the overseers house and the slave hospital, thenthe quarters in uniform brick pavilions joined by walls, in disposition all… … Figure 150. Franklin Crescent, Boston. Charles Bulfinch, 1793From an engraving in the Massachusetts Magazine, 1794 both to greater height and to less. In Boston, New York, and Philadelphia fourstories were not unusual after 1800. The Jonathan Harris house in Boston, build-ing in 1797, even had…
Architecture, Domestic · Architecture, Colonial
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