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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
Digitizing Sponsor: Smithsonian Libraries

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From a photograph by H. P. Cool: Figure 65. Rosewell, Gloucester County, Virginia. Before 1730 Greater academic splendor was obtained by the adornment of walls and pa-vilions by an order. But two instances occur of an order embracing two storiesabove a story treated as a high architectural basement: the Matthew Cozzens, orDudley house near Newport, built in the fifties or early sixties,1 and Tryons Pal-ace,2 1767-1770. The favorite scheme was the colossal order rising from groundor pedestal to the main cornice. This first appeared in the Pinckney house in Col-leton Square, Charleston (figure 66), 1746, and in Shirley Place, Roxbury (figure67), built following that year. In Shirley Place, in the west facade of the Royallhouse, before 1750, in the John Vassall and Apthorp houses in Cambridge, 1758 1 Petersons History of Rhode Island (1853), p. 149, and notes of Ogden Codman. 2 J. Lossing, Field Book of the Revolution, vol. 2 (1852), p. 570, note. 94
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Figure 67. Shirley Place, Roxbury, Massachusetts. After 1746Courtesy of William Sumner Appleton AMERICAN DOMESTIC ARCHITECTURE and soon after, the order consists of pilasters, each with an individual fragment ofarchitrave and frieze, and perhaps also of pedestal. This was the way the orderswere generally figured in the popular handbooks, by a single column with entabla-ture and pedestal mitred back at either side. Their use in this form was not con-fined to the colonies: it may be seen even in such magnificent English houses asStoneleigh Abbey (figure 69), to the central block of which the Royall facade is

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