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 194
s, Manuscripts Division. 168 HOUSES OF THE EARLY REPUBLIC the form. His disciple, Robert Mills, used it in the Wickham (Valentine) housein Richmond, 1812. In Boston it was employed by Alexander Parris in the househe designed for David Sears in 1816 (figure 127). Sometimes an octagonal or… … Figure 129. The Octagon, Washington. William Thornton, 1798 to 1800 in those for rebuilding Shadwell, 1800-1803, for Poplar Forest as originally proposed,and that of Barboursville, 1817.^ The scheme also occurs many times in the idealstudies which Jefferson made, probably during his return voyage…
