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 255
n increasing number of houses, beginning with those destined forthe President in New York, Philadelphia, and Washington, the full entablatureextended completely around. Jefferson had always preferred this scheme, and fol-lowed it whenever he could, as in his designs for Edgehill and Poplar Forest.… … Figure 190. Cornice from the William Gray house, Salem. 1801Now in the museum of the Essex Institute Cornices after the Revolution and before the adoption of Greek forms, tendedto grow lighter in proportion to the total height of the building (figure 177). Cor-nices of extreme thinness may be seen…
