Domestic architecture of the American colonies and of the early republic (1922) (14759309636)

Identifier: domesticarchite00kimb (find matches)
Title: Domestic architecture of the American colonies and of the early republic
Year: 1922 (1920s)
Authors: Kimball, Fiske, 1888-1955 New York. Metropolitan Museum of Art. Committee on Education
Subjects: Architecture, Domestic Architecture, Colonial
Publisher: New York, C. Scribner's Sons
Contributing Library: Smithsonian Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: Smithsonian Libraries



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score ofyears later than the building, Mclntire used pilasters to support an entablaturespanning the recesses at either side of the chimney-breast. The most characteristicexamples, however, now made use ol the column, with its greater functional andmonumental quality. The Williams house at 1234 Washington Street, Boston, hadAdam Corinthian columns in the same relations as the pilasters of the Peircehouse: in the recesses beside the fireplace, resting on a dado. The ballroom of theLyman house, an addition, has similar columns rising from the floor, very tall andslender, with a screen of columns also at the other end of the room (figure 200). AMERICAN DOMESTIC ARCHITECTURE The vestibule of the Woodlands (1788) is unique in having a unified columnartreatment throughout (figure 196). Its circular cornice is supported by eight col-umns equally spaced. In the interiors of Greek inspiration, columns were used onlyin open screens, sometimes double, as the one in the Stevens house in New York.
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From a photograph, copyright, 1QI2, iy William K. Simple Figure 202. The saloon, Monticello. Thomas Jefferson, 1771 to 1809 The form of interior cornices varied much at any given time with the meansof the owner and the relative importance of the room, but an evolution may betraced in several respects. Cornices of academic proportions and profile persistedtor some time in fine houses, and may even be found in rooms of the Barrell house 242 HOUSES OF THE EARLY REPUBLIC in 1792, where Adam forms were first introduced into New England (figure 201).Meanwhile lighter cornices, often with a frieze—both usually with enrichment incomposition, if they were not entirely of stucco—came in favor. Such cornicesand friezes had appeared just before the Revolution at Kenmore and Mount Ver-non; they now were adopted at Solitude (figure 204), 1784, in the Otis house of1795 and other works of Bulfinch such as the Hersey Derby house, in the Octagon(figures 193 and 207), the Lyman house (figure 200), a