. The wood-carver of Salem; Samuel McIntire, his life and work . Plate XVIII.—Cornice, Eaves, and Balustraded Roof, Peabody-Silsbee House; Peabody-Silsbee Plate XIX.—Porch of the Stearns House. Doorways and Porches usual volutes, impart a distinctly Roman aspect tothe whole, yet the heavy, cubical Tuscan plinthswere retained, and a strange, though none the lesspleasing, note has been sounded by the guttae of theDoric order both on the architrave and the mutulesunder the corona of the cornice. A ball molding,a veritable triumph of hand carving, replaces the cus-tomary dentil course, yet
. The wood-carver of Salem; Samuel McIntire, his life and work . Plate XVIII.—Cornice, Eaves, and Balustraded Roof, Peabody-Silsbee House; Peabody-Silsbee Plate XIX.—Porch of the Stearns House. Doorways and Porches usual volutes, impart a distinctly Roman aspect tothe whole, yet the heavy, cubical Tuscan plinthswere retained, and a strange, though none the lesspleasing, note has been sounded by the guttae of theDoric order both on the architrave and the mutulesunder the corona of the cornice. A ball molding,a veritable triumph of hand carving, replaces the cus-tomary dentil course, yet gives the same effect ofscale. Thus did Mclntire accomplish precedentedthings in unprecedented ways. The entire cornicehas been repeated on a larger scale under the eavesof the house. Except for rosettes directly over thecolumns, the frieze is plain. The wooden door withits delicately molded panels and tiny corner orna-ments ; the artistic leaded fanlight and side lights,and the iron fence, stair rail, and balustrade overthe porch, are all distinctive in the extreme and notsurpassed by any similar work in Salem. As a whole,the effect seems actually to v
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