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 225
ion, by shallowsurface arches, taken up meanwhile, continued much later in vogue, but likewiseultimately gave way. Interest in detail was thus concentrated, increasingly fromthe Revolution, on the windows and doorways themselves, in which a greatly in-creased variety of form and grouping… … Figure 159. Accepted elevation for the Presidents house. James Hoban, 1792From the original drawing in the possession of the Maryland Historical Society trance front of Mount Vernon, completed during the war. Mclntires early de-signs include one, but it does not seem to have been executed. Even…
Architecture, Domestic · Architecture, Colonial
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