Domestic architecture of the American colonies and of the early republic (1922)
Kimball, Fiske, 1888-1955, Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.). Committee on Education · New York : C. Scribner's Sons · leaf 128
and others. Wooden bars were the rule in transomsprior to the War of Independence. The enframement of doorways was at first merely an architrave, as in Tucka-hoe, the Mulberry, Graeme Park, and Stenton (figure 75), all by 1728, and 102 THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY examples of this can be found in masonry… … /•holo^rn/i/t by Fr.Dtk Cousins Figure 75. The doorway at Stenton. 1728 about 1725, however, it had become almost universal to have a more elaboratecrown, with frieze and cornice in some form, generally supported by either con-soles or an order. The two schemes appear almost simultaneously,…
