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 260
the enrichment of members by delicate Pompeian decoration. After 1825, 1 American Builders Companion, pi. 35.234 HOUSES OF THE EARLY REPUBLIC with the victory of Greek forms, came reaction toward rectangular rooms, heavyproportions, and relative absence of ornament. Novel elements of space, the… … Figure 195. Stairs of the Gore house, Waltham. Between 1799 and 1804Courtesy of Miss N. D. Tupper Stairs in the Colonial period had been composed exclusively ot straight runs ofsteps. On the eve of the Revolution had appeared a tendency to curve the land-ings or the hand-rail. The new style…
Architecture, Domestic · Architecture, Colonial
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