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 245
hivolt only, as in the Bingham house, the George Read II 219 AMERICAN DOMESTIC ARCHITECTURE house in Newcastle, and the Gore house, or merely to be placed filling one of thebays of a shallow arcade, as in the Hersey Derby house or the houses at the footof Park Street, Boston. In such a case even… … Figure iSo. Doorway of the Dexter house, Dexter, Michigan. 1S40 to 1843 headed doorways, omitted it in favor of plain square jambs (figure 181). The Greekdesigns made frequent use of square antae (figure 180). A portico of some form over the door became almost universal after 1790. Inthe North…
Architecture, Domestic · Architecture, Colonial
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