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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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sure, after the Revolution also. A variant was the employment of open semicir-cular niches, of which perhaps the earliest domestic example is at Gunston Hall,1758. Others, of more classical aspect, form part of the stair hall in the Chasehouse, a dozen years later. In the usual square-headed doorways, the architrave was commonly treatedwith mitred ears at the top. From 1758, when they appear at Gunston, a friezeand cornice were frequently added to important doors, most usually with a broken 119 AMERICAN DOMESTIC ARCHITECTURE triangular pediment. The frieze might be plain, curved, or even decorated withcarving, but in doorways before the Revolution was not treated with end blocksor central panel. A pediment with cyma unbroken was found only in houses ofexceptionally academic character: Graeme Park, Mount Pleasant, and Monticello.A door enframement with pilasters was unusual: there are instances at Gunston,Whitehall, and the Miles Brewton house, all dating after 1758. The William Brand-
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From a photograph by Frank Cousins Figure 89. Room to right of the hall, Jeremiah Lee house, Marblehead. 1768 lord (Horry) house in Charleston, built somewhere between 1751 and 1767, hasfolding doors framed by pilasters and an entablature. Doorways with consolessupporting the entablature were also rare in domestic interiors. Two dated exam-ples are at Mount Pleasant and the Miles Brewton house, both after 1760. Wrindow casings rarely involved other members beyond an architrave. Thearchitrave itself had ears less often than did the door casings. In two importantinstances, however, it is enriched by carved scrolls at the bottom: in Whitehall, andthe Chase house at Annapolis, both from the sixties and but a few miles apart. THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY This was a familiar device in English work, perhaps the most conspicuous illustra-tion in the handbooks being the plate bearing a recommendation of Francis PricesBritish Carpenter, published in 1733 (figure 86). At the Van Cortlandt house,1748,

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