House and Garden 
hands, but the doorway is preserved in its pristine 
condition. The mansion known as the Pickman- 
Loring-Emerton house is a brick structure of typical 
form, but possessing much exquisite detail. It was 
formerly owned 
by Mr. George 
B. Loring. It was 
built in I 8 ( i 8, 
and remodeled 
by Little & 
Brown, archi¬ 
tects, in 1885. 
The detail of the 
pillars is Ionic. 
The Ionic order 
lengthens the 
shaft, and pos- 
sesses some 
degree of orna¬ 
ment, yet pre¬ 
serves much 
simplicity. The 
volutes, or double 
scrolls of the 
capital, are said 
to have been 
copied from 
ringlets of hair, 
or perhaps from 
the horns of Ju¬ 
piter Ammon. 
The cornice 
shows a row of 
dentils or square 
teeth. The de¬ 
signs of the lead¬ 
ed glass lights on 
each side and 
above the door, 
and in the beau- 
tiful depressed 
window over the 
door, are the 
most exquisite 
patterns known 
in modern house 
building. So far 
their effect has 
never been 
equaled. This 
house, like the 
Cabot-Endicott- 
Low house, is 
on Essex Street, the main thoroughfare running 
through the length of the city. 
Chestnut Street in Salem shows some of the most 
delightful and stately houses, and amongst its beauti¬ 
ful doorways are two especially noteworthy, known 
as the Shreve doorways. That of Dr. O. B. Shreve, 
built in 1814, shows exquisite Corinthian columns, and 
is classed among the best architectural effects there. 
The Corinthian is the lightest and most highly 
decorated of the 
Greek patterns. 
The base of the 
column resem¬ 
bles the Ionic, 
but is more com¬ 
plicated. The 
capital is shaped 
like an inverted 
bell, covered on 
the outside by 
two rows of 
acanthus leaves, 
and above them, 
eight small vo¬ 
lutes. It is said 
to have been 
suggested to the 
mind of Cal¬ 
limachus, the 
celebrated sculp¬ 
tor, by seeing a 
basket covered 
with a tile and 
overgrown with 
the leaves of the 
acanthus. Under 
the cornices 
were a row of 
oblong projec¬ 
tions bearing a 
leaf, or scroll, 
called modil- 
lions. Like the 
Emerton house, 
this has a de¬ 
pressed window 
above the door¬ 
way, with Corin¬ 
thian column de¬ 
tails. The other 
Shreve doorway, 
belonging to 
what is known as 
the Pickman- 
Shreve-Little 
house, which was 
built of brick 
laid in Flemish 
bond, in 1814, also shows Corinthian columns. The 
glass lights about the door are in simple, beautiful 
and impressive Colonial design. The small decora¬ 
tive columns on each side of the front door and 
the window above are very dainty and interesting. 
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