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 254
kets in the cornice itself are of fantastic outline. In the William 231 AMERICAN DOMESTIC ARCHITECTURE Gray house, Salem, begun in 1801, there are very flat modiUions, a row of trumpet-shaped guttae in place of dentils, and a line of little spheres strung on a rod (figure190). Benjamin, in the… … Figure 192. Oval saloon ot the Baircll house, ClKirlestown. Cli.irles liulfinch, 1792 Courtesy of Ogden Codman date. In Salem they were adopted in the main cornices and porch cornices of theForrester house (1818), the Joseph Peabody house (1819-1820, figure 191),^ andmany others. For the…
