. The wood-carver of Salem; Samuel McIntire, his life and work . e-Johonnot-Nichols house, and the applied festoonedgarlands and oval florets in the Derby-Crowninshield-Rogers house. Built during the days of our maritime supremacy,many houses, of which Oak Hill is an example,were influenced considerably in their decorative de-tails by the shipbuilding industry. This is seenparticularly in the stairway with its paneled box-stairs and beautifully turned and carved balustersand newels which were suggested by the rope mold-ings much used in the ship cabins of those balusters stand on ea
. The wood-carver of Salem; Samuel McIntire, his life and work . e-Johonnot-Nichols house, and the applied festoonedgarlands and oval florets in the Derby-Crowninshield-Rogers house. Built during the days of our maritime supremacy,many houses, of which Oak Hill is an example,were influenced considerably in their decorative de-tails by the shipbuilding industry. This is seenparticularly in the stairway with its paneled box-stairs and beautifully turned and carved balustersand newels which were suggested by the rope mold-ings much used in the ship cabins of those balusters stand on each stair, the twisted por-tion of each being different, although the turnedportions at the top and bottom are all alike. The [83] The Wood-Carver of Salem newel is a particularly good specimen of its type andconsists of one corkscrew spiral within another, adifficult and excellent piece of hand carving indicat-ing the native ingenuity and intuitive decorativesense of the skilled craftsmen to whom so great ameasure of the charm of Salem architecture isdue. [84]. Plate L.—Mantel in a Chamber of the Hosmer-Waters House;Mantel in Northwest Parlor. iii I itii II iiiiEii I IE 111111 ill 11111111 mini iiii f 11 itr n i n ii i ^
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