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 153
ewmodel of richness in so many respects, there were blocks and scrolls as well, andthis was imitated in the Jeremiah Lee and other houses. The earliest examples ofthe scroll ends, at Tuckahoe (figure 97) and Rosewell, are carved somewhat in themanner of Gibbons, with foliage and flowers rather… … THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY initiated the use of a scroll block sawn to fantastic profile, in which a beaklike ele-ment predominates, and this was henceforth the commonest form, occurring atWhitby, Woodford, Mount Pleasant, Cliveden (figure 98), and in the John Vassalland Roger Morris houses. In the…
Architecture, Domestic · Architecture, Colonial
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