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 155
ter of Lund Washington to Washington in 1775, which at the sametime fixes the date of the earliest stucco work at Mount Aernon: the stucco man had completed the new room, the chimneypiece, and the dining-room ceiling,which was a handsomer one than any of Col Lewiss although not halt the workon it.^… … Figure loi. Stairs from the Hancock houseas now set up Courtesy of William Sumner Appleton AMERICAN DOMESTIC ARCHITECTURE garlands of husks, with occasional filling of acanthus scroll work. The pattern inthe parlor (figure 104), both by its general form and by the crossed palm branchesof one of the…
