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 236
alladian window was framed by ashallow bearing arch. This motive, a favorite one with the Adams, had been usedonce, we may recall, in the colonies just before the war—in the Chase house atAnnapolis. It was now adopted when the Woodlands was remodelled (figure 174),and successively in the Presidents… … Figure 171. Manchester House, LondonFrom an old view omitted in favor of plain mullions and bands, still keeping the large semicirculararch above. This is the scheme in Latrobes Burd house (1801), in the Larkinhouse (1816), and the Fairfax house at Alexandria. Or the bearing arch is madeelliptical,…
Architecture, Domestic · Architecture, Colonial
Internet Archive · Smithsonian Libraries · Public Domain Mark 1.0. Free to use for anything.
![An illustration from XIXe [i.e. Dix-neuvième] siècle (en France); classes - moeurs - usages - costumes - inventions. Ouvrage illustré d'un front. chromotypographique, de 16 planches coloriées aux patrons, de 36 entetes et lettres ornées et de 487 gravures (dont 24 tirées hors texte) d'après les principaux artistes du siècle (1893)](https://img.insideoutlibrary.com/img/200/ia-xixeiedixneuvi00granuoft-799-607.webp)