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 112
o a ridge, and the ridge was retained until the Revolutionin those houses in which the masses were relatively narrow, whether in an H planor a long rectangle. Even where the house was more nearly square there werecertain instances of keeping the ridge, as Westover (figure 59) after :^2S6 i^… … AMERICAN DOMESTIC ARCHITECTURE form with steep lower slopes, and tour visible upper slopes ot less inclination, as atAmpthill, Chesterfield County, ^irginia, about 1732; Shirley Place, Roxbury,Massachusetts, 1746; the Van Cortlandt house. Lower Yonkers, 1748; the JohnVassall (Longfellow) house,…
