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 80
h buildings the traits significant of style are lessaccentuated: general regularity, the use of the hip-roof with level eaves and mo- 1 Vol. 1 of the Vitruvius Britannicus, in which it is figured on pis. 51 and 52, appeared in 1717. Bensonseems to have settled in Wiltshire about 1712. 2 J. A.… … dillion cornice, of sash windows with wooden bars, of a framed pedimented door-way, of quoins or some simple pilaster treatment. The means of transmission to the colonies of the new gospel, in its successiveEnglish versions, were several. In the younger settlements, like Pennsylvania or,later,…
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