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 154
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… … From a photograph by H. P. Cook Figure 97. The stairs at Tuckahoe. Before 1730 the stairs was unaffected by the form of the stair ends, but occasionally their pro-file was carried the full width of the stair. The Hancock house is the first instance.The other dated examples are late: the Orne house,…
Architecture, Domestic · Architecture, Colonial
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