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 142
AMERICAN DOMESTIC ARCHITECTURE triangular pediment. The frieze might be plain, curved, or even decorated withcarving, but in doorways before the Revolution was not treated with end blocksor central panel. A pediment with cyma unbroken was found only in houses ofexceptionally academic character:… … Front u /■fiotPf;t,tp/t by l-rn>ik Coiist/is Figure 89. Room to right ot the hall, Jeremiah Lee house, Marblehead. 1768 lord (Horry) house in Charleston,, built somewhere between 1751 and 1767, hasfolding doors framed by pilasters and an entablature. Doorways with consolessupporting the…
