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 272
246 HOUSES OF THE EARLY REPUBLIC Adam sunbursts were adopted in the ceilings at Mount Vernon, as we haveseen, just as the Revolution broke out. A richer ceiling of the same sort distin-guished Solitude (figure 204), built immediately after the war for John Perm, freshfrom England. The Practical… … From a photograph by Frank Cousins Figure 208. Mantel in the dining-room at the Octagon. William Thornton, 1798 to 1800 room of the Hasket Derby house. Until 1812 or later such ceilings remained invogue for rooms of special importance, being used in the Hersey Derby, NathanielRussell (figure 205),…
Architecture, Domestic · Architecture, Colonial
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