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 141
115 AMERICAN DOMESTIC ARCHITECTURE (figure 81) have stair halls completely panelled, these do not recur in dated exam-ples at a later time. In the fifties, with Woodford and Gunston, appear for thefirst time houses without panelling and having only a plain dado. The decreasing use of panelling, in… … Figure 85. Drawing-room from Marmion, VirginiaIn the Metropolitan Museum ing some for his house, where he speaks of hangings brought over three or fouryears previous, with great variety of Birds, Peacocks, Macoys, Squirrels, Mon-keys, Fruit & Flowers.1 The use of paper-hangings increased…
Architecture, Domestic · Architecture, Colonial
Internet Archive · Smithsonian Libraries · Public Domain Mark 1.0. Free to use for anything.
