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 183
of fashion such as that of William Bingham, of Philadelphia (figure 170),^ built be-fore 1788, and of Harrison Gray Otis in Boston, built on Beacon Street in 1807, aswell as in such other aristocratic houses as that of Jonathan Mason on Mount Ver-non Street and those on Park Street. All of these… … Figure 118. Plan of a mansion for a person of distinction From Crundens Convenient and Ornamental Architecture (1785). The protot\pe of McCombs design for the Government House exterior mass was the first consideration, convenience might have to be subordi-nated and some ot its new possibilities…
