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 281
- the Langcion, John Reynolds, and John Brtnvti houses, in which certainnunor elements ot novelt) appear in houses fundamentally Colonial in stvle. Sec-ondly, the phase ot Adam inspiration proper, beginning with isolated houses in theeighties, but dominating from around 1792 to about the time of… … Figure 217. Mantel with ornament by Robert Wellford, after 1813In the Metropolitan Museum 1807. Then followed the era of free modification of Adam forms exemplified byBenjamins book of 1806 and the Salem houses after the peace of 1815. Finally,about 1825, begins the supremacy of Greek forms. A word…
