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 96
everal notable houses, especially in Virginia, continuing until after 70 THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY 1750 (figure 41). Although this was the survival of an Elizabethan and Jacobeanarrangement, it would be a mistake to suppose that it represents an arrear in rela-tion to provincial England. The H plan… … Figure 45. Plan for the Ayrault house, Newport. Richard Munday, 1739From the original drawing in the possession of George C. Mason a single room wide, with entry and stairs in the centre of each, and a hall, stilloccupying the traditional position of the old English hall in the central block.…
Architecture, Domestic · Architecture, Colonial
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