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 140
om window the inner architrave had been put up before 1775,but the frieze and cornice were added about 1803.1 Panelling was adopted in place of wainscot sheathing about 1700. Such pan-elling of rooms in wood throughout (figure 79) was proportionately commoner inthe first half of the century than… … From a p/iolograp/l by H. P. Cook Figure 84. The hall at Stratford. Between 1725 and 1730 these, to be-sure, are the most elaborate of the colonies: the mahogany room ofthe Lee house, with its rich carved pendent festoons, or the drawing-room of theMiles Brewton house (figure 80)—finest of all—with…
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