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Title: Domestic architecture of the American colonies and of the early republic
Year: 1922 (1920s)
Authors: Kimball, Fiske, 1888-1955 New York. Metropolitan Museum of Art. Committee on Education
Subjects: Architecture, Domestic Architecture, Colonial
Publisher: New York, C. Scribner's Sons
Contributing Library: Smithsonian Libraries
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r Lagrange Terrace on Lafayette Place in NewYork. The exterior treatment of these will be discussed later. The plans of these houses with party walls varied according to their width.Those of eighteen and twenty feet, including Carstairs and McCombs, could 1 Scharff and Westcott, History of Philadelphia, vol. i (1884), p. 511. 2 Cf. his letter of January 12, 1816, in the possession of Ferdinand C. Latrobe. 3 McComb collection, New York Historical Society, no. 11. 4 Drawing in the possession of Alexander Dimitry, shown me by courtesy of Mrs. Austin Gallagher. I98 HOUSES OF THE EARLY REPUBLIC have only two rooms on a floor, the stairs between, and on the street floor anentry parted off from one side of the front room. In Bulfinchs crescent (figure150), where the houses were twenty-seven feet wide, this entry was carried throughand contained front and also back stairs. The houses on Park Street, thirty-sixfeet wide, had the entrance through a full basement story to stairs at the rear, and
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