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 218
y 1721 it had filtered down into the popular hand-books. In Godfrey Richardss version of The First Book of Architecture ofAndrea Palladio, Chapter L discourses Of Flat Roofs, and a figure shows theconstruction, which, with the coverings then available, involved a slope of sometwenty degrees,… … AMERICAN DOMESTIC ARCHITECTURE of architects and laymen in the early republic. Cooper has expressed and satirizedthis feeling in The Pioneers (1822),1 in describing the mansion of MarmadukeTemple, joint product of an amateur and a builder, erected just before 1793 in thewilderness of central New…
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