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 116
s, 90 THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY all in New England before 1750. Dormers having hip-roots characterize certainSouthern houses, such as Westover, and the Eveleigh house at Charleston, in thesecond quarter of the century. A semicircular-headed window rising into the tym-panum of a triangular pediment was… … Figure 63. Benjamin Pickman house, Essex Street, Salem. 1750From an old lithograph: J. C F. del., Pendletons Litho. house, and the Miles Brewton house. At Mount Pleasant and Cliveden, in thesixties, the dormers are flanked by vertical consoles. Neither a dormer with asemicircular roof nor one with…
