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 252
roportions, as Asher Benjamin did tacitly in The CountryBuilders Assistant, and expressly—lengthening the shafts two diameters—in the American Builders Companion (1806). In the Gideon Tucker porch in 226 HOUSES OF THE EARLY REPUBLIC Salem (1809) McLitire made the Corinthian columns as slight as… … Figure 187. Design for a country villa From Lafevers Modern Buildi-rs Guidf, 1833The prototype of many houses with wings and square antae and in the LIniversity were of strict Palladian outlines and proportions, often ofthe heavy Tuscan. Latrobe, first to use the Greek orders, gave the columns of…
