Domestic architecture of the American colonies and of the early republic . Figure 132. Elevation of the Villa Rotonda for AlmericoFrom Palladio, Book II, plate 15 show also a central octagon bay in the rear. The type became a popular one inRichmond, witness a description of houses there in the middle of the century:Others appear to be triangles made of three two story hexagonal towers, with aportico filling up the open space at the base of the triangle, and the pointed roofsjoining one another. This style seems to have effected a large number of the housesof the city of any great age, giving t
Domestic architecture of the American colonies and of the early republic . Figure 132. Elevation of the Villa Rotonda for AlmericoFrom Palladio, Book II, plate 15 show also a central octagon bay in the rear. The type became a popular one inRichmond, witness a description of houses there in the middle of the century:Others appear to be triangles made of three two story hexagonal towers, with aportico filling up the open space at the base of the triangle, and the pointed roofsjoining one another. This style seems to have effected a large number of the housesof the city of any great age, giving them and it a singular At leasttwo examples still exist in Richmond, the Hancock (Caskie) house at the cornerof Main and Fifth Streets and the McRae house, which assumed its present formby 1809,5 at the corner of Ninth and Marshall Streets. 1 Cf. especially figs. 216 and 217 in Kimball, Thomas Jefferson, Architect. 2 lb., figs. 183-184, and 203-204. 3 lb., figs. 198-202. 4 J. P. Little, Richmond (1851). 5 Data kindly furnished by Edward V. Valentine. 172. Figure 133. Poplar Forest, Bedford County, Virginia. Plan and elevationThomas Jefferson, 1806 to 1809 From a drawing by Cornelia Jefferson Randolph in the possession of the University of Virginia AMERICAN DOMESTIC ARCHITECTURE
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