Hamlin, A. D. F. (Alfred Dwight Foster), 1855-1926 · New York, The Century Co. · leaf 518
COLONIAL ORNAMENT IN AMERICA after the Wren-Gibbs tradition, had akeady taken oninternally a dignity and classic elegance of detail notalways evident externally except in their spires. Thecivic buildings show something of the same quality, asin the dignified Doric treatment of the Declaration … • r> o »_ M t»_ • Fig. 314.—Details, Morkis-Jumel Mansion, New York. Chamber of Independence Hall, illustrated in Fig.310. In the later years of the century there was greatervariety of effect. The influence of the Adam style inEngland and of the Louis Seize in France graduallymade itself felt in…
Decoration and ornament
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