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The architecture is as pure Doric as at Mount Pleasant, but of the denticulated rather than the mutulary order, and altogether more satisfactory for interior trim in wood.

From The Colonial Architecture of Philadelphia by Cousins, Frank

For example, one immediately notes the mutulary Doric cornice and frieze along the sides, and the pulvinated Ionic entablature across the chancel gable above the Palladian window.

From The Colonial Architecture of Philadelphia by Cousins, Frank

Passing through a high, round-headed arch with paneled jambs and soffit one enters the central hall, a magnificent apartment in the mutulary Doric order, extending through the building to the Chestnut Street entrance.

From The Colonial Architecture of Philadelphia by Cousins, Frank

The first floor hall at Mount Pleasant presents the interesting combination of a pulvinated Ionic pediment with a mutulary Doric cornice and frieze about the ceiling.

From The Colonial Architecture of Philadelphia by Cousins, Frank

This doorway is one of the finest specimens of pure mutulary Doric in America, very stately and somewhat severe.

From The Colonial Architecture of Philadelphia by Cousins, Frank