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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
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example in which the wing forms part of the original constructionis the Van Cortlandt house at Lower Yonkers, built 1748-1749. Here, as in thePhilipse manor-house at Yonkers, there is a second stair hall in the wing, so thatthe rooms beyond have independent access, although to pass from one hall to theother one must traverse a room or step out of doors. An analogous arrangementexists at Woodford, built after 1756. As a later addition the ell frequently appearswith all types of houses. Among the houses two rooms in depth, the plan with a central chimney, ob-structing circulation, survived for some time, even in pretentious houses. Thus itwas followed in the house built by Richard Munday at Newport for Daniel Ayrault,a leading merchant, in spite of a shell doorhead and Mundillion Cornish. Pen-cil lines on the plan (figure 45) and an increased estimate show that an alternativescheme with Entry through; 2 stacks Chimneys was considered but rejected on 1 Ravenel, Charleston, 1906, p. 65.72
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Chase house, Annapolis. 1769 to 1771 Figure 46. Houses with a transverse hall AMERICAN DOMESTIC ARCHITECTURE account of cost.1 Both this house and the similar one built for Ninyon Challoner,i735j however, had back stairs which gave some privacy to the rear rooms above.Among the houses where free access to all the rooms is provided, it would be

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