Colonial Revival Wood Mantels from the Curtis Woodwork Catalog (1926)
A page from the 1926 Curtis Woodwork catalog titled 'A Worthy Mantel Graces the Hearth', illustrating stock wood mantels C-615 through C-619 in the Colonial Revival style.
By the 1920s, most new houses used Colonial Revival mantels: painted wood surrounds with slender columns or pilasters, a simple frieze and a shelf. This Curtis page shows several stock designs alongside a brick fireplace. They are exactly the kind of mantel found in many Denver Squares and later Front Range houses, and they are an easy, period-appropriate choice when an original mantel has been removed.
Paint-grade Colonial Revival mantel with colonnettes or pilasters, sized to the firebox; Signature tier.
A custom version typically runs $2,200–$5,000 per mantel, shipped.
- Style
- Denver Square
- Element
- Fireplace Mantels & Surrounds
- Published
- 1926
- Maker or designer
- Curtis Companies, Clinton, Iowa
- Source
- Curtis Woodwork (1926), via Internet Archive
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