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 279
profiles tended to give way to plain sticks, square or round, as in theBarrell house, the Octagon, Woodlawn, the Gore house, and many others. Balus-ters sawn in interlacing patterns were occasionally used by Mclntire, in the John AMERICAN DOMESTIC ARCHITECTURE Gardner house (1805) and in the… … Figure 213. Mantel from the Eagle house, HaverhillIn the Metropolitan Museum derived from the artistic fashion of the time in England and France—the style ofthe brothers Adam and of Louis XVI. Instead of the luxuriant curves of shell-work which had preceded, it employed classical motives, such as…
Architecture, Domestic · Architecture, Colonial
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