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 236
alladian window was framed by ashallow bearing arch. This motive, a favorite one with the Adams, had been usedonce, we may recall, in the colonies just before the war—in the Chase house atAnnapolis. It was now adopted when the Woodlands was remodelled (figure 174),and successively in the Presidents… … Figure 171. Manchester House, LondonFrom an old view omitted in favor of plain muUions and bands, still keeping the large semicirculararch above. This is the scheme in Latrobes Burd house (1801), in the Larkinhouse (1816), and the Fairfax house at Alexandria. Or the bearing arch is madeelliptical,…
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