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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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, where dormers were kept offthe front, yet used elsewhere, can any objection to them be inferred on grounds ofappearance. The most common form of dormer, occurring throughout the period,was one with a square-headed window surmounted by a triangular gable or pedi-ment. Other forms appear only during more restricted times. Thus an alternationof triangular and segmental pediments, as in Coleshill and Thorpe Hall in Eng-land, occurs in the McPhedris, Hancock, Clarke (Frankland), and Pickman houses, 90 THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY all in New England before 1750. Dormers having hip-roofs characterize certainSouthern houses, such as Westover, and the Eveleigh house at Charleston, in thesecond quarter of the century. A semicircular-headed window rising into the tym-panum of a triangular pediment was a form specially favored in fine houses of thelast thirty years before the Revolution,1 finding employment in 1746 at ShirleyPlace, Roxbury, and after 1760 at Mount Pleasant, Cliveden, the Roger Morris
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Figure 63. Benjamin Pickman house, Essex Street, Salem. 1750From an old lithograph: J. C F. del., Pendletons Litho. house, and the Miles Brewton house. At Mount Pleasant and Cliveden, in thesixties, the dormers are flanked by vertical consoles. Neither a dormer with asemicircular root nor one with a Palladian window occurs in any attested instancebefore the Revolution. A cupola was placed on the roof of some large Colonial mansions, as in manyEnglish houses, beginning with Coleshill and Ashdown. Among minor English ex- 1 Hope Lodge, near Philadelphia, ascribed to 1723, has dormers of this type, otherwise unknown at such adate, and thus possibly later additions. 91 AMERICAN DOMESTIC ARCHITECTURE amples, the Cupola house at Bury St. Edmunds, dated 1693,1 has an octagonalone with four arched windows and a roof semicircular in section. GovernorHutchinson wrote of a fire in the roof of his house in 1748, the Lanthorne beingin a blaze.2 Existing cupolas in the colonies which seem to be cont

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