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 224
lexander Dimitry, shown me by courtesy of Mrs. Austin Gallagher. 198 HOUSES OF THE EARLY REPUBLIC have only two rooms on a floor, the stairs between, and on the street floor anentry parted off from one side of the front room. In Bulfinchs crescent (figure150), where the houses were twenty-seven… … r/y/// //or.v/-: ,„/.„./,■,//., //,,. /; v/v/./1 yy. I//. ///// (//// //// ( Figure 158. Presidents house, Philadelphia. 1792 to 1797From the engraving by William Birch, 1799 thus could have two parlors occupying the full width of the front on the mainfloor—a favorite arrangement with Bulfinch…
