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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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the placing of one order above another again become sanctioned. An approach to the truly colossal portico is furnished by Jeffersons houses:Monticello, as remodelled (figure 147), Edgehill, designed by 1798, the entrancefront of Poplar Forest, and Ampthill in Cumberland County—in which the porticoran the full height of a building of one story. At Monticello, and later at Barbours-ville, there were mezzanines, to be sure, and at Farmington, where the new rooms 1 W. B. Bryan, History of the National Capital, vol. 2 (1916), p. 64. 224 HOUSES OF THE EARLY REPUBLIC behind the portico constituted a single story equal to two of the older part, theywere twenty-seven feet in height. Already before these houses, others having two stories throughout were dignifiedby a portico of their full height—like that of the Morris house in New York,which had been unique before the Revolution. The great portico at the Woodlands(figure 185) seems to date Irom the remodelling of 1788. The Government House
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From a photograph by H. F. Beidlemau Figure 185. The Woodlands, Philadelphia. River front, as remodelled 1788 in New York, begun the next year, followed McCombs studies in having one fromthe start. Madison, under the advice of Jefferson, added one to Montpellier (fig-ure 186) in 1793,1 and the owners of many other Colonial houses did likewise. Forthe White House, the great north portico projected by Latrobe in 1807 was builtin 1829.2 A width of four columns was universal, the portico being merely a centralpavilion, narrower than the front of the house. The decisive further step was taken,as we have seen at Mount Vernon and in the Pavilions V and I of the Universityof Virginia, where the porticos were made the full width of the front. From thispoint the history of the portico became that of the mass of the house itself. 1 Kimball, Thomas Jefferson, Architect, p. 56. 2 Bryan, History of the National Capital, vol. 2, p. 238. AMERICAN DOMESTIC ARCHITECTURE Differences in the form and prop

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