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 273
ette rising directly to the under side of its cornice. The Gray mantelhas colonnettes ot quatrefoil plan—of Gothic architecture improved by rules andproportions—although arrangement, mouldings, and ornament remain the sameas in thoroughly classic examples. Raynerd in the American Builders… … Figure 211. Mantels from the Gore house, Waltham. Between 1799 and 1804 Courtesy of Miss N. D. Tupper AMERICAN DOMESTIC ARCHITECTURE The mantel cornices underwent a transformation in profiles similar to that ofroom cornices. The first fanciful examples are at Homewood, where there is a…
