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 87
. 15. 6l AMERICAN DOMESTIC ARCHITECTURE The plans used by Benjamin Wyatt and Richard Munday of Newport, amongthe ablest of the early builders—the oldest domestic designs preserved, now firstpublished (figures 32 and 45)—are incredibly elementary. Only Peter Harrisonand Sir Francis Bernard, who are… … Figure 36. Hutchinson house, BostonFrom the American Magazine of Useful Knowledge (1836) diagrams sufficed was due less to traditional knowledge on the part of thecraftsmen—for they had constantly to assimilate new gospel from London—thanto the admirable designs and details in books, consistent in…
Architecture, Domestic · Architecture, Colonial
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