[55] This was a relatively common cornice line in the Washington area. It appears on, among others, Earps Ordinary in Fairfax, last half of the eighteenth century; Millers House, Colvin Run, about 1825; servants wing of Decatur House, 1818, Washington.
[56] This design is used, among other places, in the outbuildings at Bremo, about 1820, Fluvanna County, and the jail, about 1848, Palmyra. In the immediate area the use is known to the author only in the barn at the Oxon Hill Childrens Museum, Prince Georges County, Maryland, early nineteenth century.
[57] The icehouse at Belle Grove, Middletown, late eighteenth century, is the former type, while Woodlawn, Fairfax County, 1805, is believed to have been the latter type.
Figure 24. Architect George Hadfield's exhibit at the Royal Academy, 1780-82. | Figure 25. Hadfield's design, bed chamber story plan. Courtesy, Avery Library, Columbia University |
CHAPTER IV
THE ARCHITECT OF HUNTLEY