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 238
shed from Colonial work by their delicate proportions. The friezes 215 AMERICAN DOMESTIC ARCHITECTURE are commonly terminated by small end blocks and may be enriched by fluting orcarving. The Colonial types of doorways rapidly vanished trom pretentious houses.The single rectangular opening, either… … Figure 176. Pickering Dodge (Shreve) house, Salem. 1822 to 1S23 peared. The pediment, which had been so universal a feature in the entramementof later Colonial doorways, scarcely persisted longer except in local vernacularwork. The baroque scroll pediment had been disused on exteriors before…
