Domestic architecture of the American colonies and of the early republic (1922) (14759195736)

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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THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY first time, it curves around without any intermediate newels. In the plan madefor his house by the painter Copley in 1771,1 it is the landing which is semicircular.Stairs themselves laid out on an arc of a circle do not occur before the Revolution. The hand-rail at Graeme Park and Stenton, as in seventeenth-century Colonialhouses and as in the Ashmolean, runs directly against the newel posts, but in fine
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From a photograph by Frank Cousins Figure 99. The stairs of the Jeremiah Lee house. 1768 staircases of later date it is customary to have curved easings, which first appearat Tuckahoe, Rosewell, and the McPhedris house. Similar curves were often in-troduced in the horizontal rail on the landings. Stair rails with Chinese lattice instead of balusters, which may be seen atBoughton House in England, exist in America also, for instance at BachelorsHall in Maryland and at Brandon. The dates of both stairs are indeterminate,that of the latter probably after the Revolution. From an early day it was universal in fine Colonial stairs to have a sloping 1 Collections of the Massachusetts Historical Society, vol. 71 (1914), p. 136. I31 AMERICAN DOMESTIC ARCHITECTURE wainscoted dado against the wall opposite the stair rail. Graeme Park and Rose-well are perhaps the latest conspicuous exceptions. The floors in houses of the eighteenth century began to receive a share in theformal design. The most n