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 257
ets in the cornice itself are of fantastic outline. In the William 231 AMERICAN DOMESTIC ARCHITECTURE Gray house, Salem, begun in 1801, there are very flat modillions, a row of trumpet-shaped guttae in place of dentils, and a line of little spheres strung on a rod (figure190). Benjamin, in the… … Figure 192. Oval saloon of the Barrell house, Charlt-stuwn. Charles Bulfinch, 1792 Courtesy of Ogden Codman date. In Salem they were adopted in the main cornices and porch cornices of theForrester house (1818), the Joseph Peabody house (1819-1820, figure 191),^ andmany others. For the…
