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 247
h a portico of four columns, with a pediment, in studies of 1780; Soli-tude had one on the garden front soon after; Woodlawn, The Grange, the Wick-ham and Van Ness houses furnish later examples (figure 130). All these were rec- AMERICAN DOMESTIC ARCHITECTURE tangular, with four columns.… … From a photograph by Frank Cousins Figure 182. Porch of the Langdon house, Portsmouth. Before 1782 the semicircle of the portico is continued by a great niche hollowed about the doorafter the manner of Soane. A special case of the portico of one story was what had come to be known as apiazza: a…
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