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 265
AN DOMESTIC ARCHITECTURE such a treatment in the Barrell house and employed it in the oval room of theDerby mansion. The profiles of the mouldings he derived from Pains PracticalHouse Carpenter, recently issued. The pedestal-like dado, generally plain, of lateColonial times, persisted very… … Figure 200. Ballroom, Lyman house, Waltham wave motives. No one of these has any general priority in time, and many ofthem appear simultaneously in a single building, as in the Morton house, 1796.Even the surbase was omitted with increasing frequency as the Greek influencegathered strength.…
Architecture, Domestic · Architecture, Colonial
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