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 197
mpshire, was substantially similar in mass, exceptfor a veranda with light columns around the circular bay. The octagonal bow also appeared in other combinations. The study of thesespecially fascinated Jefferson, as his ideal sketches reveal.^ At Farmington, 1803,and Ampthill in Cumberland County,… … Figure 132. Elevation of the Villa Rotonda for AlmericoFrom Palladio, Book II, plate 15 show also a central octagon bay in the rear. The type became a popular one inRichmond, witness a description of houses there in the middle of the century:Others appear to be triangles made of three two story…
