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 251
ork. The example of theAdams was here all-powerful at first. Elements and arrangements familiar intheir work became common in x\merica, beginning before 1790. Thus the Ioniccapital with parallel volutes and a decorated necking was first adopted on the en-trance front of the Woodlands (figure 155),… … Frofft a photograf-ix dy R. II. Hoisiiiger Figure 186. Montpellier, Orange County, Virginia. Portico, 1793 taken up in Bulfinchs Morton house (figure 156) and widely used by Mclntire,among others. In the front portico at Homewood the favorite palm capital appears.Columns were attenuated…
