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 275
CAN DOMESTIC ARCHITECTURE No special priority seems to have subsisted in the employment, as mantel sup-ports, of engaged columns, pilasters, half-pilasters, or panels of a pilaster-like char-acter. All alike are shown in handbooks of the nineties. Free-stancjring columnsor pairs of slender columns,… … Figure 210. Mantel from the Harrison Gray Otis house, Cambridge Street, Boston. 1795Courtesy of the Society for the Preservation of New England Antiquities different ways the beginnings of a tendency to modify the forms of the orders in afanciful and capricious manner. The mantel in the southwest…
Architecture, Domestic · Architecture, Colonial
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