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 218
1721 it had filtered down into the popular hand-books. In Godfrey Richardss version of The First Book of x^rchitecture ofAndrea Palladio, Chapter L ciiscourses Of Flat Roofs, and a figure shows theconstruction, which, with the coverings then available, involved a slope of sometwenty degrees,… … a! O U P. „ (1 o o ^ c H-i CO o c n is o rr, -o M - CO s^ — to o co -13C 3 Oi tM AMERICAN DOMESTIC ARCHITECTURE of architects and laymen in the early republic. Cooper has expressed and satirizedthis feeling in The Pioneers (1822),^ in describing the mansion of MarmadukeTemple, joint product of an…