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 134
ECTURE as for the plan and exterior—that is to say, chiefly the architectural publicationsand builders handbooks. After 1700 and still more after 1725, these became richin details of cornices, doorways, chimneypieces, and stairs, as well as consoles, car-touches, and other ornaments, and it is… … I /■hot^griipli /■! //. /. Cod* Figure 81. The stairs at Westover are marked differences in the character ot the forms exemplified and recommended.While the English Palladianism of Lord Burlington tended to banish from the ex-terior the baroque forms used by Wren, such as scroll peciiments and…
