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 238
y HOUSES OF THE EARLY REPUBLIC face of the wall. This type, Ions: used in England with windows having a stonearchitrave, was retained there when there was none, as commonly in designs ofthe Adams. It appeared in America, along with the first Adam detail, in theWoodlands and in the Barrell house.… … Figure 173. Nathaniel Silsbee house, Salem. 1818 to 1819Courtesy of the Essex Institute American Builders Companion, the following year, only the narrow frame wasshown. Sash-bars were also made narrower, as in England—a feature of Adamslenderness. Any exterior enframement of windows in masonry…
