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 142
ng mitredagainst the wainscot. This still persists in the Van Cortlandt house in Lower Yon-kers, and in parts of Carters Grove, and it even recurs in the Lee house, Marble-head, in 1768, but at this late date it was highly exceptional. Almost from the first introduction of panelling it was not… … AMERICAN DOMESTIC ARCHITECTURE Tuckahoe (figure 83), Westover (figure 102), the Hancock house, and many laterhouses, rising sometimes from the floor, sometimes from the dado. In the hall atStratford (figure 84) they are used more ambitiously, completely surrounding theroom at intervals measurably…
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