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 80
ildings the traits significant of style are lessaccentuated: general regularity, the use of the hip-roof with level eaves and mo- Vol. I of the Vitruvius Britannicus, in which it is figured on pis. 51 and 52, appeared in 1717. Bensonseems to have settled in Wiltshire about 1712. J. A. Gotch, The… … Tq—wijwii dillion cornice, of sash windows with wooden bars, ot a framed pedimented door-way, of quoins or some simple pilaster treatment. The means of transmission to the colonies of the new gospel, in its successiveEnglish versions, were several. In the younger settlements, like Pennsylvania…
