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 141
67. AMERICAN DOMESTIC ARCHITECTURE (figure 8i) have stair halls completely panelled, these do not recur in dated exam-ples at a later time. In the fifties, with Woodford and Gunston, appear for thefirst time houses without panelling and having only a plain dado. The decreasing use of panelling, in… … Figure 85. Drawing-room from Marmion, VirginiaIn the Metropolitan Museum ing some for his house, where he speaks of hangings brought over three or fouryears previous, with great variety of Birds, Peacocks, Macoys, Squirrels, Mon-keys, Fruit & Flowers.^ The use of paper-hangings increased…
