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 258
els between. This arrangement, which is shown inPains Practical House Carpenter, republished in Philadelphia in 1797, was ■ For the date see R. S. Rantoul in Historical Colh-ctions of the Essex Institute, vol. 24 (1887), p. 257. 232 HOUSES OF THE EARLY REPUBLIC adopted in the Gore house (figure… … Front a photograph bv Fra>U- <. ■•:tiii:s Figure 193. Vestibule of the Octagon, Washington. William Thornton, 1798 to 1800 1811—to mention datable examples. Li the parapets of other houses these open-ings above the windows were filled not with balusters but with pierced interlacingcircles.…
