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 265
d into New England (figure 201).Meanwhile lighter cornices, often with a frieze—both usually with enrichment incomposition, if they were not entirely of stucco—came in favor. Such cornicesand friezes had appeared just before the Revolution at Kenmore and Mount Ver-non; they now were adopted at… … From a JihotoQraplt by R, ly. Hoisiiigcr Figure 203. Cornice in the North Bow, Monticello. Thomas Jefferson, about 1805 The examples enumerated have simple classic profiles, often with dentils, plain orfanciful, and with relatively slight projection. About 1800 shallow, fiat blocks,mutules or…
