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Title: Domestic architecture of the American colonies and of the early republic
Year: 1922 (1920s)
Authors: Kimball, Fiske, 1888-1955 Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.). Committee on Education
Subjects: Architecture, Domestic Architecture, Colonial Historic buildings
Publisher: New York : C. Scribner's Sons
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
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4 by 12 Side consoles exist in the door of the Dummer house, probably built between 1712 and 1716, whichclosely follows the doorway on p. 175 of Richards Palladio. -J. Belcher and Macartney: Later Renaissance Architecture in England, vol. 2 (1901), pi. II. The fine similar doorway of the McPhedris house, Portsmouth, seems, from the way the belt course hasbeen cut away for it, to be somewhat later than the house itself. 104
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Figure 76. The doorway at Cliveden. After 1763 AMERICAN DOMESTIC ARCHITECTURE inches tor his palatial house/ the panes of the Ayrault house in Newport, the sameyear, were to be 7 by 9,^ and in a town ten miles from Boston in 1770 panes 10 by14 excited the admiration and curiosity of the neighborhood.^ The following tablewill show the prevailing tendency: 1721 Graeme Park 8 x \2)4 1737 Ayrault house, Newport 7 x 9 I7T7 .Hancock house, Boston 8>^ x 12 iiKx 18 1746 Pinckney house, Charleston 9 x 11 Before jJ7£o Royall house, west front 8 xio 1748 Van Cortlandt house. Lower Yonkers 9 xii After i7(;6 Woodford 10 xi2 1758 Gunston Hall 12 x 18 i_2^ John Vassal! house 12 x 16 After 1^62 Mount Pleasant 9 x 12 After i^~6j Cliveden , 9 x 12 Whitehall 13J< x 20 j^^ Roger Morris house 12 x 16 1769-1771 Chase house, Annapolis 11 x iS 1770 Quincy house, Braintree 10 x 14 1771-1775 Monticello 12 xi2 The number of panes tended, of course, to vary inversely with their size, eighteenor twenty-fou

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