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 229
rose above a high basement. For Franklin Crescent (figure 150) Bul-finch adopted an engaged order, columns for the central pavilion, pilasters for theend pavilions and the houses opposite; and he repeated the motive with variedlateral groupings in his designs for the Knox house, the Hasket Derby… … Figure 163. Design for a city houseJohn McComb, about 1799 From the original drawing in the possession of theNew York Historical Society as substructure tor pilasters above a base-ment. A basement with open arcades be-low an order was the motive of Gabrielsfamous palaces of the Place de la…
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