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 263
N DOMESTIC ARCHITECTURE had a visible exterior dome, such as Monticello and the David Sears house. Thegreat circuLar saloons of the Swan house in Roxbury (figure 146), and the JonathanMason house in Boston, as well as the vestibule of the \Yoodlands (figure 196),had domes behind vertical exterior… … Figure 198. Interior of the John C. Stevens house, College Place and Murray StreetNew York. Alexander Jackson Davis From the original drawing in the possession of the New York Historical Society elaborated by square niches in the diagonal axes of the rotunda. The niche with asemi-dome—large enough,…
