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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
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Figure 210. Mantel from the Harrison Gray Otis house, Cambridge Street, Boston. 1795Courtesy of the Society for the Preservation of New England Antiquities different ways the beginnings of a tendency to modify the forms of the orders in afanciful and capricious manner. The mantel in the southwest room at Homewoodhas a colonnette rising directly to the under side of its cornice. The Gray mantelhas colonnettes of quatrefoil plan—of Gothic architecture improved by rules andproportions—although arrangement, mouldings, and ornament remain the sameas in thoroughly classic examples. Raynerd in the American Builders Com-panion (1806) shows a colonnette of this sort, as well as slender coupled colon-nettes. A tall and very flat console reaching to the floor, which had been used atWoodlawn about 1800, also appears there. 250
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Figure 211. Mantels from the Gore house. Waltham. Between 1799 and 1804 Courtesy of Miss N. D. Tupper AMERICAN DOMESTIC ARCHITECTURE The mantel cornices underwent a transformation in profiles similar to that ofroom cornices. The first fanciful examples are at Homewood, where there is a wide-spreading shelf supported by modillions. The wide shelf may be found also atWoodlawn and in many later mantels in Salem. These last seem to be under theinfluence of the mantel and cornice designs of the American Builders Com-panion (1806). Thus the mantels of the Kimball house and the Womans Bureauhave guttae in place of dentils like its plates 12 and 13, and the Kimball mantelhas also a line of spheres let into the edge of the mantel-shelf, as in plate 28. An overmantel was retained in a few instances even after the adoption of Adamforms. Pains Practical Builder, of which an edition was published in Bostonin 1792, shows one (plate 50); his later works, the British Palladio and Practi-cal House Car

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