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 270
USES OF THE EARLY REPUBLIC mutules free|uently occur in the plates engraved by both men, and it is stated thatone of the embellishments ought always to be in the plancere. Scrolls risingbelow the overhang, which were shown by Benjamin as early as 1797, were alsoused in the Gardner house. A detail… … Froin a photograph by Fra}ik Cousins Figure 206. John Andrew (SafFord) house, Salem. 1818 to 1819 been built in 1809. In the Andrew house in Salem, 1818-1819, finally, the stuccocornice is of plain mouldings of rounded section (figure 206). A cove cornice, frequent enough in Colonial days,…
