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 127
nds 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, Rosewell, West-over, the Ayrault house at Newport, and the Daniel Pastorius house at German-town, all between 1721 and 1748. A… … Figure 74. Roger Morris (Jumel) house. New York City. lybi^ and x-^pthorp houses in Cambridge. Meanwhile, in the arched door heads cominginto use after 1757, semicircular transoms or fanlights now first appeared, super-seding both the older forms. The elliptical arch of the Miles Brewton house…
