Identifier: domesticarchite00kimb (find matches)
Title: Domestic architecture of the American colonies and of the early republic
Year: 1922 (1920s)
Authors: Kimball, Fiske, 1888-1955 New York. Metropolitan Museum of Art. Committee on Education
Subjects: Architecture, Domestic Architecture, Colonial
Publisher: New York, C. Scribner's Sons
Contributing Library: Smithsonian Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: Smithsonian Libraries

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From a photograph by Frank Cousins Figure 206. John Andrew (Safford) house, Salem. 1818 to 1819 been built in 1809. In the Andrew house in Salem, 1818-1819, finally, the stuccocornice is of plain mouldings of rounded section (figure 206). A cove cornice, frequent enough in Colonial days, continued in use for a briettime only. The banquet room at Mount Vernon (about 1778) has one, festoonedwith Adam husks. The oval saloon of the Barrell house (figure 192) likewise hada cove, which was imitated in the similar room of the Hasket Derby house (1795).Latest, perhaps, was the ballroom of the Lyman house. AMERICAN DOMESTIC ARCHITECTURE A full entablature as a room cornice, which had been rather common before theRevolution, was used, for a long time after it, only in Jeffersons work (figures 202and 203). His entablatures were proportioned to the rooms exactly as if sup-
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From a photograph by Fra)ik Cousins Figure 207. Mantel and cornice in the drawing-room at the OctagonWilliam Thornton, 1798 to 1800 ported by an order, so that the Tuscan ones in minor rooms at the University areof enormous size. With the supremacy of Greek forms a full entablature once morebecame the general rule. 246 HOUSES OF THE EARLY REPUBLIC Adam sunbursts were adopted in the ceilings at Mount Vernon, as we haveseen, just as the Revolution broke out. A richer ceiling of the same sort distin-guished Solitude (figure 204), built immediately after the war for John Perm, freshfrom England. The Practical House Carpenter, which seems to have been thework of William Pain mentioned in Mclntires inventory,1 showed ceilings of thischaracter, and Mclntire drew on its plates 92 and 93 lor his ceiling in the oval

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