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 181
ot uncommonfor the chief rooms to be toward the rear, constituting a back front or gardenfront, as in the Derby, Gore, and Brockenbrough houses, for instance. In all thesethe hall was not carried through to the garden side, but the desirable exposure therewas used for a file of rooms en suite. So… … 1.4tnory Coolitf^i Figure 116. Study for .t Governors house in Richmond on the model of Palladios. Thomas Jefferson about 1783 From the original drawiiif; in the Coolidge Collection HOUSES OF THE EARLY REPUBLIC house the entrances are at the ends of the front, ui the Harrison Gray Otis houseon…
