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 284
politan Museum (figure 219). Summarizing the development ot style in interior detail, we may distinguishseveral successive phases. First, a transitional or post-Colonial phase, repre-sented by the Langdon, John Reynolds, and John Brown houses, in which certainminor elements of novelty appear in… … Figure 217. Mantel with orniiment by Robert Wellford, after 1813In tlie Metropolitan Museum 1807. Then followed the era of free modification of x^dam forms exemplified byBenjamins book of 1806 and the Salem houses after the peace of 1815. Finally,about 182;;, begins the supremacy of Greek forms. A…
