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 226
ES OF THE EARLY REPUBLIC The earliest characteristic instances are in the curved houses of Franklin Crescent,and in the Octagon. Where two stories were grouped in such a way, panels weresometimes introduced opposite the intervening floor, above the windows. TheBingham house (figure 170), the… … Figure 160. Study for the Elias Hasket Derby house, Salem. Charles Bulfinch, 1795From the original drawing in the possession of the Essex Institute panels were occasionally carved: in the Hersey Derby, Parkman, and JonathanMason houses (figures 166 and 121) designed by Bulfinch, in Woodlawn, and…
Architecture, Domestic · Architecture, Colonial
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