Excerpt from A Comparative Study of a Group of Early American Doorways, Vol. 2: Porches The inclusion of a frontispiece within a porch is not common in the first examples of porches. Appar ently the early de signers felt that if they built a porch they had decorated a n e n t r a n c e enough, and were content to leave the doorway with a simple molded architrave; this is of course sufficient even to our mod ern eyes in nar row porches; but in wide ones, such as that of the house at Sharon, we would attempt to introduce ...
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Excerpt from A Comparative Study of a Group of Early American Doorways, Vol. 2: Porches The inclusion of a frontispiece within a porch is not common in the first examples of porches. Appar ently the early de signers felt that if they built a porch they had decorated a n e n t r a n c e enough, and were content to leave the doorway with a simple molded architrave; this is of course sufficient even to our mod ern eyes in nar row porches; but in wide ones, such as that of the house at Sharon, we would attempt to introduce side lights and a con tinuation by pilas ters of the order; here a mere varia tion of the clap boards was made to serve as a dec orative motive. Our treatment would be more like that of the beautiful exam ples of the Greek revival in Balti more, which are illustrated on page eleven, built probably in 1830. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at ... This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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Add this copy of Comparative Study of a Group of Early American Doorways to cart. $12.95, very good condition, Sold by Books 'n Stuff rated 3.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Frederick, MD, UNITED STATES, published 1921 by Russell F. Whitehead / The De Vinne Press.
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Russell F. Whitehead / The De Vinne Press
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1921
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English
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