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 220
02. ^ Thomas JefFerson, Architect, fig. 62. ^ lb., figs. 205-206. 194 HOUSES OF THE EARLY REPUBLIC mental origins, but after 1795 the more classical form of the saucer dome waspreferred. In less pretentious houses older roof forms persisted long after the Revolution,but not without undergoing… … Figure 154. Jerathmeel Peirce (Nichols) house, Salem this, an outstanding characteristic of what has come to be known as the DutchColonial style (figure 148). It is scarcely Colonial in the strict sense, and notDutch in origin at all. Nothing analogous is known in Holland. On the otherhand,…
