. The wood-carver of Salem; Samuel McIntire, his life and work . ious expedient ofapplying broad, horizontal bands of white marble ateach floor level, Mclntire demonstrated how simplea matter it is to relieve the severity of so high afagade. These bands, together with the marblesills and keyed lintels of the many ranging windows,contribute much toward a seemingly broader front-age and so, like the foreshortened third-story win-dows, tend to reduce the apparent total height. Acomparison of this with the Tucker-Rice house alsodiscloses more fully the eifectiveness of a balustradedroof quite apar
. The wood-carver of Salem; Samuel McIntire, his life and work . ious expedient ofapplying broad, horizontal bands of white marble ateach floor level, Mclntire demonstrated how simplea matter it is to relieve the severity of so high afagade. These bands, together with the marblesills and keyed lintels of the many ranging windows,contribute much toward a seemingly broader front-age and so, like the foreshortened third-story win-dows, tend to reduce the apparent total height. Acomparison of this with the Tucker-Rice house alsodiscloses more fully the eifectiveness of a balustradedroof quite apart from its ornamental value. In-stead of increasing the seeming height, it has the verycontrary effect, and by placing the roof line some-what below the absolute top of the structure causesthe whole mass to look lower. The Tucker-Rice porch was much admired byProfessor Eleazer B. Homer, of the MassachusettsInstitute of Technology summer school, who toldhis class in 1895, while in Salem, that it was the bestproportioned porch in the city. And so it remains [56]. Plate XXIV.—Porch of the Tucker-Rice House.
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