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 272
46 HOUSES OF THE EARLY REPUBLIC Adam sunbursts were adopted in the ceilings at Mount Vernon, as we haveseen, just as the Revolution broke out. A richer ceiling of the same sort distin-guished Solitude (figure 204), built immediately after the war for John Penn, freshfrom England. The Practical… … Fro>n a photograph by Frank Co, Figure 208. Mantel in the dining-room at the Octagon. Wilham f hornton, 1798 to 1800 room of the Hasket Derby house. Until 1812 or later such ceilings remained invogue for rooms of special importance, being used in the Hersey Derby, NathanielRussell (figure 205),…
