. International studio. A TYPICAL NEW ENGLAND PINEAPPLE DOORWAY. I Ml VESTIBULE TYPE OF DOORseen ON THE PIERCE-NICHOLS HOI SE, SALEM, MASS. [ead to the house give a picturesque touch that isfascinating. Tins was the home of ElizabethStark, familiarly known by her husbands petname for her, Molly, and still occupied by one ofhis descendants. Under this portal have passedmany a distinguished guest, including RobertMorris and General Lafayette. No period in architecture stands out morevividly than that which came into existence in thelatter part of the seventeenth and early eighteenthcentury, and
. International studio. A TYPICAL NEW ENGLAND PINEAPPLE DOORWAY. I Ml VESTIBULE TYPE OF DOORseen ON THE PIERCE-NICHOLS HOI SE, SALEM, MASS. [ead to the house give a picturesque touch that isfascinating. Tins was the home of ElizabethStark, familiarly known by her husbands petname for her, Molly, and still occupied by one ofhis descendants. Under this portal have passedmany a distinguished guest, including RobertMorris and General Lafayette. No period in architecture stands out morevividly than that which came into existence in thelatter part of the seventeenth and early eighteenthcentury, and while houses designed in the Northshow the Puritanical inlluence, the Southernbuilders conveyed through their breadth afeeling of hospitality so characteristic in thatsection of the country. Nowhere are these doors more impressive thanthose found at Salem, Massachusetts, represent-ing many of them the work of Samuel Mclntyre,the woodcarvcr. Classic detail appears notonly in architrave, pilaster, and pediment, but inover-door decoration, illustrating the best e
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