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 257
ets in the cornice itself are of fantastic outline. In the William 231 AMERICAN DOMESTIC ARCHITECTURE Gray house, Salem, begun in 1801, there are very flat modillions, a row of trumpet-shaped guttae in place of dentils, and a line of little spheres strung on a rod (figure190). Benjamin, in the… … Figure 192. Oval saloon of the Barrell house, Charlestown. Charles Bulfinch, 1792 Courtesy of Ogden Codman date. In Salem they were adopted in the main cornices and porch cornices of theForrester house (1818), the Joseph Peabody house (1819-1820, figure 191),1 andmany others. For the…
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