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 201
of a single regularoctagon, and this he erected on another estate, Poplar Forest, beginning in 1806(figure 133). Although it is in a sense the logical outcome of his experiments withoctagons and with the rotonda type elsewhere, the direct suggestion seems to havecome from a design ascribed to Inigo… … From a f/iotogrn/h hy R. It. H.^/an^fr Figure 136. Pavilion VII, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Virginia Thomas Jefferson, 1817 ended rooms around it, meeting at the central point on each side. As finally devel-oped for Poplar Forest, there were porticos at front and rear, x-^lthough…
