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 275
aster-like char-acter. All alike are shown in handbooks of the nineties. Free-standing columnsor pairs of slender columns, however, did not come into use in American Adammantels until 1800. The first dated instances come, respectively, from Homewoodand from the William Gray house (Essex House) at…