Hamlin, A. D. F. (Alfred Dwight Foster), 1855-1926 · New York, The Century Co. · leaf 507
Fig. 304.—Central Bay, Vassal-CraigieOR Longfellow House, Cambridge,Massachusetts. A HISTORY OF ORNAMENT exteriors was the urn or vase used as a finial, alike forgate-posts and to adorn the angles of gables (Fig. 305).Church steeples were variants of the types developedby Wren and Gibbs (see p.… … Fig. 305.—Decorative Urns akd Gate-Post, Salem, Massachusetts. as in the English models, which were quite closely fol-lowed in many of the best examples (Fig. 306). Fences and gates to private houses were usually ofwood and treated often with considerable elegance; butfew remain to the present time…
Decoration and ornament
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