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 195
with curved faces, analo-gous to those of the Hotel Moras (Biron) in Paris. The last of the town housesbuilt by Bulfinch in 1807 for Harrison Gray Otis, on Beacon Street, Boston, on arestricted site, has an oval drawing-room at one side overlooking the rear garden.The Joseph Manigault house in… … Figure 130. Van Ness house, Washington. Front elevation. Benjamin Henry Latrobe 1813 to 1819 From a measured drawing by Ogden Codman similar features. Sometimes in a pair ot symmetrical houses a bay was placed ateither end of the front, as in the house at 55 Beacon Street, Boston, long occupiedby…
