Hamlin, A. D. F. (Alfred Dwight Foster), 1855-1926 · New York, The Century Co. · leaf 504
Figure 95. JNIantelpiece, LaddHouse, Portsmouth, New Hampshire. Figure 96. Detail, Fireplace, Brockiss House, Germantown, Pennsylvania. COLONIAL ORNAMENT IN AMERICA Colonial exteriors are those of the doorways, windows,cornices and dormers. The earliest doorways were with-out porches, capped with… … Fig. 303.—Door of House in Newport, Rhode Island, like those of English early Georgian houses. In woodenhouses the doorway was generally flanked with pilasters.Windows were generally dressed with rather narrow,finely molded architraves, sometimes with complete 397 A HISTORY OF ORNAMENT…
Decoration and ornament
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