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 252
ic proportions, as Asher Benjamin did tacitly in The CountryBuilders Assistant, and expressly—lengthening the shafts two diameters—in the American Builders Companion (1806). In the Gideon Tucker porch in HOUSES OF THE EARLY REPUBLIC Salem (1809) Mclntire made the Corinthian columns as slight as… … Mninl Figure 187. Design for a country villaFrom Lafevers Modern Builders Guide, 1833The prototype of many houses with wings and square antae and in the University were of strict Palladian outlines and proportions, often ofthe heavy Tuscan. Latrobe, first to use the Greek orders, gave the columns…
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