Domestic architecture of the American colonies and of the early republic (1922)
Kimball, Fiske, 1888-1955, New York. Metropolitan Museum of Art. Committee on Education · New York, C. Scribner's Sons · leaf 115
was neverthe-less often introduced to approximate the fashionable effect. The oldest house inthe colonies which has such an eaves-balustrade is the Schuyler house, Albany,1761, and there is no special reason to suppose it did not form part of the originalconstruction, although it is not… … Figure 62. Carved modillion from the Hancock house, Boston. 1737 to 1740In the possession of the Massachusetts Historical Society sequently. A parapet at the eaves appears also in an old view of Tryons Palace,built 1767-1770, but any such feature did not become common in America untilafter the…
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