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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
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Figure 93. Chimney piece from Swans British Architect, plate 50. With elementsused in Mount Vernon and the Brice house of the lintel slab is profiled more richly, and there is the suggestion of a mouldedkeystone. It was a facing like this, as we see by the photograph preserved at theOld State House in Boston, which is referred to in the bill of the joiner, WilliamMore, against Thomas Hancock:1 1746 June 28, To Cuting away the flore &fixing for ye Laying of your harthes & asisting the mason in puting up the frun-tispeic of marbel 3-0-0. Westover is unique in having a broad expanse of marble on 1 Hancock MSS., Boston Public Library. AMERICAN DOMESTIC ARCHITECTURE the chimney-breast, terminating in a pediment, and restored to-day with a paneland festoons above the fireplace (figure 102). By the middle of the century whole mantelpieces of marble began to be im-
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Cofiyright by George H. Policy Figure 94. Chimneypiece in the Council Chamber, Wentworth house, Little Harbor ported. At Carters Grove, built 1751, one room had a full marble mantelpiecewith frieze and cornice (figure 87), another merely marble architrave-facings.Bills tor the Schuyler house include one of 1767 for 4 marble chimney pieces withhearths.1 Governor Tryon enclosed in one of his letters of 1769 a description ofthe finest of the chimneypieces for his house: 1 G. Schuyler, The Schuyler Mansion, p. 6.126 THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY For the Council Chamber in the Governors House at Newbern in North Carolina.A large statuary Ionic chimney piece, the shafts of the columns sienna and the fretton the Frieze inlaid with the same. A rich edge and Foliage on the Tablet; medals of the

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