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 247
portico ot four columns, with a pediment, in studies of 1780; Soli-tude had one on the garden front soon after; Woodlawn, The Grange, the Wick-ham and Aan Ness houses furnish later examples (figure 130). All these were rec- 221 AMERICAN DOMESTIC ARCHITECTURE tangular, with four columns.… … Fro*n aphoto^aph by Frank Cousins Figure 182. PorcH of the Langdon house, Portsmouth. Before 1782 the semicircle of the portico is continued by a great niche hollowed about the doorafter the manner of Soane. xA special case of the portico of one story was what had come to be known as apiazza: a…
