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 140
om window the inner architrave had been put up before 1775,but the frieze and cornice were added about 1803.^ Panelling was adopted in place of wainscot sheathing about 1700. Such pan-elling of rooms in wood throughout (figure 79) was proportionately commoner inthe first half of the century than… … From a photograph by H. P. Coofc Figure 84. The hall at Stratford. Between 1725 and 1730 these, to be sure, are the most elaborate of the colonies: the mahogany room ofthe Lee house, with its rich carved pendent festoons, or the drawing-room of theMiles Brewton house (figure 80)—finest of all—with…
