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 254
USES OF THE EARLY REPUBLIC Square piers or antae were sometimes substituted for circular columns, as lessdifficult to make and less expensive. The first notable instance is the long porticoat Mount Vernon, added between 1784 and 1787. Many of the best vernacularhouses in New Jersey, such as the… … Figure 189. Cornice details. Benjamin Henry LatrobeFrom an original drawing in the possession of Ferdinand C. Latrobe spired by his plates may be found scattered from the Hudson westward throughcentral New York and Michigan (figure 188). For the external cornice of the house, the academic tendency…
Architecture, Domestic · Architecture, Colonial
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