The country house; a practical manual of the planning and construction of the American country home and its surroundings (1905)
Hooper, Charles Edward, 1867- · New York : Doubleday, Page & company · leaf 106
es and caps of a correspond-ing richness. The doors themselveswere, in the better examples, inlaid.Some of these are most beautiful in lineand colour. At a later date, with the revivalof the classic, the architrave took onthe form of the column and cap support-ing the characteristic pediment.… … Old doorway in Washington Street, Boston, Mass. Thisexample is somewhat marred by the more recent door and theugly bay set foolishly on top of the hood. 82 The Country House The over-door was a feature used in most of tlie early examples, even up toabout a century ago. It consisted of various…
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