Doorway
Possibly Alexander Grant American
This doorway provided entry into the Landlord Fowler Tavern in Westfield, Massachusetts. Originally painted a monochromatic gray-white to resemble stone, this wooden doorway with its Corinthian pilasters and a scrolled pediment represents a classical design commonly used in colonial America. It may have derived from the widely-circulated architecture book by William Salmon, Palladio Londinensis: or The London Art of Building (1734). The doorway’s presence in the Connecticut River Valley shows how sophisticated European designs reached even the most remote locations in the American colonies.
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