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 126
s on the eve of the Revolution.There is but a single undoubtedly authentic example, itself late, of an ellipticalarched door head before the Revolution, that of the Miles Brewton house in Charles-ton, built 1765-1769.^ The familiar elliptical heads are otherwise entirely fromRepublican days.… … Figure 73. Design from Palladio, Book IIplate 61 AMERICAN DOMESTIC ARCHITECTURE The most significant difference within the bounds of the opening lay in themethod of giving light to the hall at this point. In early houses a rectangulartransom here was not uncommon: witness Graeme Park, Stenton,…
