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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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iece of four columns, it follows exactly the interior arrangement of Pal-ladios design. Like the temple scheme, this plan did not come to execution atthe time, but it was not forgotten, as we shall see, and was destined ultimately tohave an important future in America. Earlier than these classical types in its embodiment in executed buildings wasa scheme of which the inspiration was essentially French. This was the plan with 1 Cf. Kimball, Thomas Jefferson, Architect pp. 33 and 140. l6l AMERICAN DOMESTIC ARCHITECTURE a projecting saloon, occupying a place of honor in the centre of a garden front,opposite the entrance. Created by Le Vau at Vaux-le-Vicomte under Louis XIV,the type, with an elliptical salon, was adopted almost universally in France in thestyle of Louis XV, and became the favorite device of the rococo in Germany, atSans Souci (1745), Solitude, and Monrepos (1764). In England, the scheme, withan octagonal saloon, had been illustrated in some of Robert Morriss books, Archi-
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Figure 122. Swan house, Dorchester, MassachusettsFrom a measured drawing by Ogden Codman tecture Improved (1755) and Select Architecture (1759). Made classical byusing a circular room surrounded by columns and surmounted by a saucer dome,it was adopted by James Paine in his unexecuted design for the garden facade ofKedieston (1761), and by Robert Adam in the River House at Sion. In this classi-cal form it appeared in France in the Hotel de Thelusson, built 1780, and theHotel de Salm, 1782-1786. The house with the projecting saloon had likewise owed its introduction inAmerica to Jefferson, who, as we have seen, adopted an octagonal projection in 162 HOUSES OF THE EARLY REPUBLIC building Monticello (figure 52) just before the Revolution. It was taken up inde-pendently by others, who were the first to employ the curved projection. This ap-pears in both the lateral facades of the Woodlands, as remodelled in 1788: a housewhich, although somewhat limited in the central part by existing wall

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