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 94
rt and convenience.The ordinary number both of living-rooms and of bedrooms was increased. Kitchenand hall, parlor and bedroom, were no longer combined in houses of any preten-sions. Beyond this, however, differentiation in the functions of rooms was slow,as it had been abroad. It is difficult to… … Figure 43. The Mulberry, Goose Creek. South Carolina. Between 1708 and 1725 Courtesy of L lrich B. Phillips tew cases show that the uses were somewhat indeterminate. Thus the contract forthe Ayrault house in Newport, 1739, speaks of the Front Rooms . . . with aBofTet in the biggest of them.1…
Architecture, Domestic · Architecture, Colonial
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