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 157
ociety, vol. 71 (1914), p. 136. AMERICAN DOMESTIC ARCHITECTURE wainscoted dado against the wall opposite the stair rail. Graeme Park and Rose-well are perhaps the latest conspicuous exceptions. The floors in houses of the eighteenth century began to receive a share in theformal design. The most… … Figure 100. Details of stairs and stair-window in the Hancock house From a measured drawing by John Sturgis Courtesy of R. Clipston Sturgis shaped figures, and had in the centre a unique and curious tesselated design . . .encircling the coat of arms of the Clarke family.^ Stucco workers were rare…
