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 202
en had an enormous following. Octagonal houses were scattered everywhere, inNew England, in the Northwest, many still with Greek detail. Even to-day fewold Michigan towns are without one or more, built in the fifties and sixties. Incruder examples the bedrooms are arranged around a central chimney,… … rr pitstogrttfih by R. W. Hohntger Figure 137. Pavilion II, Ionic of Fortuna Virilis, University of Virginia Thomas Jefferson, 1818 English landscape gardens, and were imitated on the Continent, as in the Eng-lish Pavilion at Pillnitz. Some of these pavilions were not mere summer-houses,but had…
