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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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ediaeval methods of the seventeenth century were con-tinued long after 1700, as indeed they have been perpetuated to this day in ob-scure corners of Europe. The log house became the typical pioneer dwelling. Thewooden chimney and the leaded casement, as we have seen, long persisted in coun-try districts, as did the lean-to and the overhang. The Williams house in Deerfield,as originally rebuilt in 1707, was untouched by any breath of innovation. Mr.Isham has suggested that in Connecticut the fundamentally mediaeval methods offraming, and even a vestige of the overhanging stories, were retained until 1730or even 1750. The most notable instances of such survivals occur in the buildingsof the German sectarians of Pennsylvania, especially the monastic buildings atEphrata (figure 29). The Saal or Prayer House here was completed in 1741; Bethania, the Brother Hall, in 1746.1 The construction is of hewn beams, put J. F. Sachse, The German Sectarians of Pennsylvania, vol. I (1889), passim. 5°
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AMERICAN DOMESTIC ARCHITECTURE together without iron for ritual reasons, and filled with stones and clay, beneaththe boarding or stucco. The steep roofs and small windows, the illuminated textsof the interior, the picturesque porches, have an old-world air which is unique onthis side of the ocean. Thus, in the midst of the eighteenth century, faded the last afterglow of theart of the Middle Ages in America. 5 2 THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY WITH the opening of the eighteenth century the academic spirit andthe academic architectural forms, which had hitherto just begunto appear here in a few transitional houses, won the upper hand inColonial architecture at large, as in the architecture of England.The academic style involved much more than merely a general symmetry andan application of the classic orders, already introduced into the great houses ofEngland by the Renaissance. It involved a transference of the emphasis fromfunctional considerations to those of pure form. Tall gables and chimney

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