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 272
mantel sup-ports, of engaged columns, pilasters, half-pilasters, or panels of a pilaster-like char-acter. All alike are shown in handbooks of the nineties. Free-standing columnsor pairs of slender cokimns, however, did not come into use in American Adammantels until 1800. The first dated instances… … Figure 210. Mantel from the Harrison Gray Otis house, Cambridge Street, Boston. 1795Courtesy of the Society for the Preservation of New England Antiquities different ways the beginnings of a tendency to modify the forms of the orders in afanciful and capricious manner. The mantel in the southwest…
