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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
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found without them. No general rulemay be framed regarding their presence, which is not even dependent on the ab-sence of inside shutters. The Van Cortlandt and John Vassall houses, among others,have both. Whether all the shutters are contemporary with^the houses is uncer-tain, but in the case of the Schuyler house, Albany, at least, we have bills of 1761for fifteen pairs of outside shutters.2 Panelled outside shutters were practicallyconfined to the Middle Colonies. The blinds with louvres used elsewhere in Colo- 1 Smith. Dwelling Houses of Charleston, p. 368. 2 G. Schuyler. The Schuyler Mansion, p. 6. IO8 THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY nial times, and indeed long after, generally had large slats and no cross-bar. Mov-able slats were not introduced until later. The chimneys were slow to depart from the earlier tradition of elaboration inplan. Thus at Tuckahoe, Graeme Park, and Rosewell, all before 1730, the chim-neys are T-shaped; this form occurs in one of the chimneys of the Hancock house,
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From a photograph iy H. F. Beidleman Figure 79. The drawing-room, Graeme Park 1737, and even in one of those of the Van Cortlandt house, Lower Yonkers, 1748.Slender pilaster-like strips mark the ends of one broad face of the chimneys atTuckahoe and in the McPhedris house, Portsmouth. Early chimneys of merelyrectangular form exist, however, at the Mulberry and at Stenton, and they werenormal after 1730, although an isolated instance of a pilaster strip occurs in sucha fine house as Cliveden as late as 1763. The variety of forms of the chimney-capbetween about 1730 and the Revolution are not significant of date. One havingthe profile of a small classic cornice, for instance, is found in a number of preten-tious houses from Rosewell to Monticello, while others have but a simple plinth. 109 AMERICAN DOMESTIC ARCHITECTURE For exterior balustrades, turned balusters of ordinary academic profile werecustomary. The posts in early examples like those of the McPhedris and Hancockhouses were like

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