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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1919 Excerpt: ...houses of both wood and brick were foreshortened with square windows. Single and two-piece sashes were both employed and the number of panes differed considerably. The windows of the Pierce-JohonnotNichols house well illustrate the three-pane upper and six-pane lower sash arrangement which was a feature of several of Salem's best houses. Still more common rt-si bfl. 'C-a 2 8 (-The elaborate Palladian windows which became such an important and beautiful accompaniment of square brick houses have already been illustrated and referred to in Chapter V, but this chapter would hardly be complete without including mention of two of the many attractive round-headed windows which lighted the stairway landings of earlier gambrel-roof and square wood houses. The hall window of the Lindall-Gibbs-Osgood house, Number 314 Essex Street, erected in 1773, commends itself for effective simplicity, while that of the Pierce-JohonnotNichols house possesses the greater refinement of the keyed arch, the application of blinds and, most important of all, the fanlight motive of the upper sash bars. Such windows not only charm the eye as interior features but relieve the severity of many ranging square-headed windows and provide a center of interest for the rear elevation corresponding to the doorway of the facade that lends grace and distinction to an otherwise nondescript aspect of the house. Plate LXVI.--A Chamber in the Cook-Oliver House. Erected 1804; Paneled Wall, Parlor at The Lindens, Danvers. Erected 1754. CHAPTER VIII INTERIOR WOOD FINISH WHITE-PAINTED interior woodwork, one of the greatest charms of the Colonial house, provides the only architectural background that conveys satisfactorily the sense of mellow warmth and graceful dignity in eighteent...

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