Domestic architecture of the American colonies and of the early republic (1922) (14595477519)

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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Kenmore, Fredericksburg, Virginia Brice house, Annapolis Figure 49. Houses with a stair hall expanded to one side terior spaces are unbalanced. At the Chase house, where the lower run is centraland divides on the landing, the stairs are brought into relation to the balanced hall. A number of Colonial houses have a hall with the front part treated as a room,the stairs in a separate and smaller space to the rear (figure 47). Early examplesof this, such as the Governors Palace at Williamsburg, and Stenton, are of much 76 THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY irregularity. After the middle of the century the scheme is reduced to the sym-metry seen at Carters Grove and Cliveden. In this form it has some affiliationwith such plans of Palladio as those of his Book II, plates 32, 41 (figure 48), and61 (figure 73), in which the central apartments constitute an inverted T, although
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Whitehall, Anne Arundell County. Maryland Van Rensselaer house, Albany. 1761 1763 ff. Figure 50. Houses with a broad transverse hall free from stairs, and stairs placed laterally none of these has the stairs in the stem of the T, as have the Colonial examples. AtCarters Grove an arch framed by pilasters connects the two parts; at Clivedenthey are separated by a screen of columns. Although of the half-dozen notable Colonial houses with a hall expanded to oneside (figure 49) there is an authentic date only for Rosewell, there can be littledoubt that the others all belong prior to about 1760.1 The scheme was one in- 1 The dates commonly assigned these houses are as follows: Shirley, 1700; the Brice housd, Annapolis, about1740; Kenmore, about 1750; the Moffat (Ladd) house, Portsmouth, 1763. 77 AMERICAN DOMESTIC ARCHITECTURE capable of that symmetrical co-ordination with the whole which was sought in thefinest houses after that date, and thenceforth other schemes were preferred to it.The H