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 137
room window the inner architrave had been put up before 1775,but the frieze and cornice were added about 1803. PanelHng was adopted in place of wainscot sheathing about 1700. Such pan-elling of rooms in wood throughout (figure 79) was proportionately commoner inthe first half of the century than… … From a photograph by H. P. Cook Figure 84. The hall at Stratford. Between 1725 and 1730 these, to be sure, are the most elaborate of the colonies: the mahogany room ofthe Lee house, with its rich carved pendent festoons, or the drawing-room of theMiles Brewton house (figure 80)—finest of all—with…
