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 119
Rosewell the pavilions, front and rear, are masses deep enough to affect the spaces ofthe interior, but a glance at the plan reveals that they were adopted for plastic exterioreffect. This is obviously the case with the shallow central pavilions which appearedfrequently after 1750: for instance, in… … hroin a fholog^-oph by H. P. Coo/: Figure 65. Rosewell, Gloucester Count}, Virginia. Before 1730 Greater academic splendor was obtained by the adornment of walls and pa-vilions by an order. But two instances occur of an order embracing two storiesabove a story treated as a high architectural…
