Domestic architecture of the American colonies and of the early republic . Copyright, 10IQ, by Pc Maurice Kra/cow Figure 92. Console fromchimneypiece of parlor man-tel in the Brice house, An-napolis THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY are known to have been in the colonies. There is a somewhat similar design inSwans book, plate £4, but this has no overmantel and is otherwise not so nearlyidentical with the American example. Facings of marble for the fireplace opening were often provided, the oldesthouses having them being Stenton and Westover. Ordinarily these were plainslabs constituting the fascia of the
Domestic architecture of the American colonies and of the early republic . Copyright, 10IQ, by Pc Maurice Kra/cow Figure 92. Console fromchimneypiece of parlor man-tel in the Brice house, An-napolis THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY are known to have been in the colonies. There is a somewhat similar design inSwans book, plate £4, but this has no overmantel and is otherwise not so nearlyidentical with the American example. Facings of marble for the fireplace opening were often provided, the oldesthouses having them being Stenton and Westover. Ordinarily these were plainslabs constituting the fascia of the architrave. At Whitby, built 1754, the soffit. 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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