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 245
hivolt only, as in the Bingham house, the George Read II 219 AMERICAN DOMESTIC ARCHITECTURE house in Newcastle, and the Gore house, or merely to be placed filling one of thebays ot a shallow arcade, as in the Hersey Derby house or the houses at the footof Park Street, Boston. In such a case even… … Figure I So. Doorway of the Dexter house, Dexter, Michigan. 1S40 to 1S43 headed doorways, omitted it in tavor of plain square jambs (figure 181). The Greekdesigns made frequent use of square antae (figure 180). A portico of some form over the door became almost universal after 1790. Inthe North…
