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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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(fig-ure 131)-1 It closely follows the Pal-ladian prototype, as shown in Leonisedition of his works (figure 132), withthe tall exterior dome and all four por-ticos. Failing of selection by Wash- ington and the commissioners, the idea was later embodied by Jefferson in an un-executed design for which Robert Mills, then a youth under his instruction, made 1 Kimball, Thomas Jefferson, Architect, pp. 53, 154-156; The Genesis of the White House, CenturyMagazine, vol. 95 (1918), pp. 524-528. 174 HOUSES OF THE EARLY REPUBLIC drawings in 1803.1 The scheme was too purely formal in its balance to meetwith favor until ideals of abstract unity had become established through thestrengthening of classical influence generally. Not until after central balance anda central dome had become common in the design of churches and other buildingswas the type of Palladios villa rotonda adopted in dwelling-houses. After 1830,however, buildings on this model—square, with a central hall, circular or polygonal
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Figure 135. Sketches for a house for Robert Liston. Benjamin Henry Latrobe, 1800From the original drawings in the possession of Ferdinand C. Latrobe in shape, often lighted from above—became numerous. A magnificent examplewas Belmont, Nashville, Tennessee, designed by William Strickland about 1850,with an unbroken cornice supported by a Corinthian order. Many others couldbe cited, such as Waverly, near Columbus, Mississippi, or a house standing untilrecent years on the hill in Providence, Rhode Island. Meanwhile the house composed about a central axis had been exemplified ina less ambitious form, better fitted for acceptation. Before 1804 Jefferson had 1 Kimball, Thomas Jefferson, Architect, fig. 181.175 AMERICAN DOMESTIC ARCHITECTURE proposed for Pantops, one of his farms, a house in the form of a single regularoctagon, and this he erected on another estate, Poplar Forest, beginning in 1806(figure 133). Although it is in a sense the logical outcome of his experiments withoctagons a

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