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 148
768. The majority of chimneypieces after 1750, however, had a specialovermantel: a single large panel framed by an architrave, more or less elaborated.Two early overmantels are to be found at Graeme Park, built in 1721, but these 111 THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY are highly exceptional for their time.… … Figure 91. Chimneypiece from Swans British Architect (1745), plate 51Prototype of the Lee house mantel the architrave, frequently occurs, contemporary with the employment of this fea-ture in doors: at Mount Pleasant, the Schuyler, Van Rensselaer, Miles Brewton,Jeremiah Lee, and John Stuart houses.…
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