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 278
eral, spatial form we have already discussed. It remainsonly to treat of the details of hand-rails and strings. The open string, with the 252 HOUSES OF THE EARLY REPUBLIC ends of the treads showing, remained universal. Many of the curved flights, evenat the very foot, had no wall below the string:… … Figure 212. Mantel in the Haven house, PortsmouthFrom Corner and Sodcrlioltz: Colonial Architecture in New England are in the Reynolds house in Philadelphia and in the Barrell house (figure 194).At the Woodlands and in the Gore house (figure 195) the strings for the first timeare wholly devoid of…
