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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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ia, the Chase house at Annapolis, the Schuyler and RogerMorris houses in New York, the Timothy Orne house in Salem, Drayton Hall andthe Miles Brewton house in South Carolina. A significant feature of the roof was the balustrade that was frequently usedwith it. We have seen that Belknap mentions balustrades as used in Boston after1711, bordering a flat deck. Such a flat deck balustrade first appeared in Englandat Coleshill, under the Commonwealth. The earliest Colonial example remaining is 88 THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY that of the McPhedris house in Portsmouth, surely before 1728 and probably fin-ished in 1722, which has a balustrade from chimney to chimney, along the curbsdividing the upper and lower slopes of its gambrel roof (figure 56). One likewiseoccurs with the gambrel in the Hancock and Pickman houses (1737 and 1750),where it also returns across the ends (figures 34 and 63). With the mansard roof(figures 67,68) it appears in Shirley Place, Roxbury (after 1746), and the John Vassall
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Figure 61. Royall house, Medford. East front. Between 1733 and 1737 house (1759); with the hip-roof having a deck—its truly functional use—in Wood-ford (after 1756), Mount Pleasant (figure 39, after 1761), and Lansdowne (1773-1777) at Philadelphia, in the Orne House at Salem (1761), and in the Roger Morrishouse in New York (1765). Simultaneously, to be sure, the same types of roofcontinued to be used also without a balustrade, as at Thorpe Hall: the mansardhaving none in the Van Cortlandt house (1748); the hip-roof with a deck havingnone in Stenton (1728), in Drayton Hall (before 1756), in the Miles Brewton house,Charleston (1765—1769), and in the Chase house, Annapolis (1769-1771). Meanwhile the balustrade had appeared in another position, which was destinedto be preferred in future, along the eaves. A terrace roof, covered with lead, with 89 AMERICAN DOMESTIC ARCHITECTURE a balustrade above the cornice, had long been adopted in Europe for buildings ofthe greatest academic pret

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