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 134
ed elsewhere in Colo- ^ Smith, DweUing Houses of Charleston, p. 368. - G. Schuyler. The Schuyler Mansion, p. 6. 108 THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY nial times, and indeed long after, generally had large slats and no cross-bar. Mov-able slats were not introduced until later. The chimneys were slow to depart… … Figure 79. The drawing-room, Graeme Park 1737, and even in one of those of the Van Cortlandt house, Lower Yonkers, 1748.Slender pilaster-like strips mark the ends of one broad face of the chimneys atTuckahoe and in the McPhedris house, Portsmouth. Early chimneys of merelyrectangular form exist,…
