Hamlin, A. D. F. (Alfred Dwight Foster), 1855-1926 · New York, The Century Co. · leaf 514
develop to important proportions. Col-umns to carry the arch separating the front parlor fromthe rear parlor or the dining-room, or dividing theentrance hall from the stairway, were not introduceduntil about the middle of the century; they were at firstmore common in the houses of the rich Southern… … Fig. 313.—Detail of Stairway, Lee House, Marblehead, Massachusetts. long time imported. This appears from the fact thatthey are of practically identical design in New Englandand in Maryland and Virginia. In the Ladd house atPortsmouth, N. H., there is in one of the chimnej^-pieces 407 A HISTORY OF…
Decoration and ornament
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