Domestic architecture of the American colonies and of the early republic (1922)
Kimball, Fiske, 1888-1955, Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.). Committee on Education · New York : C. Scribner's Sons · leaf 103
1796 (figure 52), likewise had its par-lour in the centre of the garden-front, but the whole room projected in octagonalform—as illustrated in several designs in Robert Morriss Select Architecture(1759), which Jefferson owned—after the manner of a French sa/o?i. The academic striving for formal… … Figure 51. Plan from Palladio, Book IIplate 33 THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY portance (figure 53). It is sometimes difficult to determine absolute priority inthe adoption of a given scheme, since outbuildings and house are not necessarilycontemporary. The oldest building with a pair of offices…
