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Title: Building with assurance
Year: 1921 (1920s)
Authors: Morgan Woodwork Organization
Subjects: woodwork -- catalogs domestic architecture -- catalogs furnishings -- catalogs Division 06 Division 12 wood posts and columns wood stairs wood railings base and shoe moldings exterior wood door frames wood door and window casings dining tables and chairs lamps couchws and loveseats art glass
Publisher: Morgan Woodwork Organization
Contributing Library: MBJ collection

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er home, one of theleading fashions of today is no less Colonial inits inception. Perhaps we should say Greek,for some of the most beautiful and simple door-ways of Colonial times are purely Hellenic inform and type. The supporting columns of the porticos con-form strictly to the ideals of those Greek archi-tects who gave us graceful columns with theirsimple Doric, scrolled Ionic, and elaboratelycarved Corinthian capitals. Those perfect pro-portions the eye of man has found impossibleof improvement to this day. The Tuscan column, a plain rounded pillar,is very popular and is typical of the mingledsimplicity and strength which won for theancient Roman the empire of his world. Where pillars are used, it is well to rememberthat their proportions must be architecturallycorrect and the skillful designer of millworkwill always take this point into consideration. The simple, white paint-ed, panelled Colonial \door was most oftensurmounted by a semi-circular transom, knownas a *fan-light*^ or
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**sunburst, with the panes sometimes leadedin quite intricate designs. Then glass panelswere not seen as often as they are today, andside lights were rare. Today, with our ever-increasing love of alloutdoors, the more light we get, the betterwe like it. In some instances the upper half ofthe door consists of a single clear sheet ofglass, while the lower half is wood panelled,thus giving us a view of the flowers and foliagewhich greet us from our own dooryard^ as wellas furnishing a very practical means of lightingthe hallway, which sometimes proved a difficultproblem. Other doors are patterned after those whichlook over gardens, the woodwork is merely aframe holding in place transparent panes ofcrystal. The Vestibule Where the doorway leads into a room insteadof directly into the hall, a vestibule is almostindispensable, especially in those parts of thecountry where overshoes, fur coats and um-brellas are necessities for a part of the year atleast. With a low built-in hall seat on one

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