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 284
opolitan Museum (figure 219). Summarizing the development of style in interior detail, we may distinguishseveral successive phases. First, a transitional or post-Colonial phase, repre-sented by the Langdon, John Reynolds, and John Brown houses, in which certainminor elements of novelty appear in… … Figure 217. Mantel with ornament by Robert Wellford, after 1813In the Metropolitan Museum 1807. Then followed the era of free modification of Adam forms exemplified byBenjamins book of 1806 and the Salem houses after the peace of 1815. Finally,about 1825, begins the supremacy of Greek forms. A word…
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