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 139
s, vol. I (1861), p. 209. AMERICAN DOMESTIC ARCHITECTURE Palace, we learn expressly from a letter of 1769 that besides window-sash and leadfor roofing, four of the principal chimney pieces are arrived also from London,with the hinges, locks, and other articles for the finishing this much admired… … Figure 83. Northeast room at Tuckahoe. Before 1730. Mantel, post-Revolutionary tions were made after a long interval, as in the case of the post-Revolutionary man-telpieces at Tuckahoe, the Mulberry, and the two Van Cortlandt houses, the dif-ference of style is unmistakable. There is also the…
