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 150
ece of parlor man-tel in the Brice house, An-napolis THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY are known to have been in the colonies. There is a somewhat similar design inSwans book, plate £4, but this has no overmantel and is otherwise not so nearlyidentical with the American example. Facings of marble for the… … Figure 93. Chimney piece from Swans British Architect, plate 50. With elementsused in Mount Vernon and the Brice house of the lintel slab is profiled more richly, and there is the suggestion of a mouldedkeystone. It was a facing like this, as we see by the photograph preserved at theOld State House…
Architecture, Domestic · Architecture, Colonial
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