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 251
work. The example of theAdams was here all-powerful at first. Elements and arrangements familiar intheir work became common in America, beginning before 1790. Thus the Ioniccapital with parallel volutes and a decorated necking was first adopted on the en-trance front of the Woodlands (figure 155),… … From a photograph by K. If. Holsiiiger Figure 186. Montpellier, Orange County, Virginia. Portico, 1793 taken up in Bulfinchs Morton house (figure 156) and widely used by Mclntire,among others. In the front portico at Homewood the favorite palm capital appears. Columns were attenuated systematically…
Architecture, Domestic · Architecture, Colonial
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