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 86
THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY the derivation of both from English handbooks. Such a theory arises merely be-cause appreciation of these smaller English houses, which have been eclipsed bytheir great neighbors, has only come after the Colonial work has been long familiar. Armed with books, a cultivated… … From a photograph by H. P. Cook Figure 35. Mount Airy, Richmond County, Virginia. 1758 in practice. The drawings made, with rare exceptions, were few and crude. Evenin England, in 1700, conditions were similar, and the desirability of drawings forordinary buildings had still to be argued. Tis…
Architecture, Domestic · Architecture, Colonial
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