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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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s, however, varied with time in a way which is not true of the dooropenings. Those of the houses down to 1732 are notably tall in proportion, as muchas 2^4 -. 1 at Graeme Park. Such tall windows recur later only in the isolated in-stance of Gunston Hall, 1758. The size of glass used in window-panes showed a general increase as the cen-tury progressed, but this increase was not regular and uniform for all houses of agiven time. Thus whereas in 1737 Thomas Hancock, countermanding a previousorder, doubtless for smaller panes, ordered glass 11J 2 by 18 inches and 8^2 by 12 1 Side consoles exist in the door of the Dummer house, probably built between 1712 and 1716, whichclosely follows the doorway on p. 175 of Richards Palladio. 2 J. Belcher and Macartney: Later Renaissance Architecture in England, vol. 2 (1901), pi. 11. 3 The fine similar doorway of the McPhedris house, Portsmouth, seems, from the way the belt course hasbeen cut away for it, to be somewhat later than the house itself. IO4
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Figure 76. The doorway at Cliveden. After 1763 AMERICAN DOMESTIC ARCHITECTURE inches for his palatial house,1 the panes of the Ayrault house in Newport, the sameyear, were to be 7 by 9,2 and in a town ten miles from Boston in 1770 panes 10 by14 excited the admiration and curiosity of the neighborhood.3 The following tablewill show the prevailing tendency: 1721 Graeme Park 8 x ii)4 1737 Ayrault house, Newport 7 x 9 1737 Hancock house, Boston x 12 nyi x 18 1746 Pinckney house, Charleston 9 xn Before 1750 Royall house, west front 8 x 10 1748 Van Cortlandt house, Lower Yonkers 9 xn After 1756 Woodford 10 x 12 1758 Gunston Hall 12 xi8 1759 John Vassall house 12 xi6 After 1761 Mount Pleasant 9 x 12 After 1763 Cliveden 9 xi2 Whitehall 1312 x 20 176^ Roger Morris house 12 x 16 1769—1771 Chase house, Annapolis 11 x 18 1770 Quincy house, Braintree 10 x 14 1771—1775 Monticello . . . 12 xi2 The number of panes tended, of course, to vary inversely with their size, eighteenor twenty-four panes

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