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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 160

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h the same character, although lesscrowded. In the ceilings of the west parlor and the banquet hall—the latter notraised until the summer of 1776 at earliest1—first appeared true Adam ornament,with a sunburst of husks, and with delicate festoons. Plaster cornices were used in connection with the… … Figure 103. Details of hall ceiling in the Chase house, Annapolis

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