Fireplace Mantels & Surrounds · Denver Square
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.
Design characteristics
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.
Classification
- Style
- Denver Square
- Category
- Fireplace Mantels & Surrounds
- Material
- Painted pine
- Motifs
- Colonnette, Dentil
- Published
- 1926
- Maker or designer
- Curtis Companies, Clinton, Iowa
- Evidence
- Period catalog illustration
Architectural context
Denver's foursquare: oak built-ins, colonnades and sturdy stock millwork. Denver, Colorado · c. 1890–1920.
