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 90
length of the blocks. This did not prevent the more modest houses from lag- 64 THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY ging behind: Mill Grove, 1762, and the Johnson house in Germantown, 1768, bothhave rubble in parts. In Massachusetts ashlar appeared earlier, in the remarkablehouse built by Thomas Hancock in 1737,… … From ii /•holograph by Frank Loiisrn.s Figure 39. Mount Pleasant, Philadelphia. After 1761 ginia, Mount Airy, perhaps the most ambitious house in the colony, 1758, hadcoursed ashlar of somewhat varying height, with the central pavilion and trim oflighter stone in regular courses (figure 35). Little…
