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 257
e,and the enrichment of members by delicate Pompeian decoration. After 1825, American Builders Companion, pi. 35. HOUSES OF THE EARLY REPUBLIC with the victory of Greek forms, came reaction toward rectangular rooms, heavyproportions, and relative absence of ornament. Novel elements of space, the… … Figure 195. Stairs of the Gore house, Waltham. Between 1799 and 1804Courtesy of Miss N. D. Tupper Stairs in the Colonial period had been composed exclusively of straight runs ofsteps. On the eve of the Revolution had appeared a tendency to curve the land-ings or the hand-rail. The new style…
