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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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the most purely ideal of the buildingsof Louis XIV, the absolute identity of the four sides was retained, but the exteriordome and the projecting porticos were alike omitted, while pilasters of the fullheight of the walls were carried entirely around. In England, at least four housesof the type were projected in the decade from 1720 to 1730, generally with some or 1 Account of the Capitol of Virginia, in Works edited by Lipscomb and Bergh, vol. 5, p. 134. l6o HOUSES OF THE EARLY REPUBLIC even all of the porticos omitted, and with other concessions to economy or use.Two, however, retained an exterior dome: Mereworth Castle, by Colin Campbell,following Palladios plate of the villa for Almerico with the utmost literalnessthroughout; Lord Burlingtons villa at Chiswick, otherwise less complete, havingan octagonal saucer dome with steps. Among Jeffersons studies after the transfer of the government of Virginia toRichmond, when he was chairman of the Directors of the Public Buildings (1780-
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Figure 121. Jonathan Mason house, BostonFrom an old lithograph. Courtesy of Ogden Codman 1783), apparently for a Governors house there, is the quarter-plan of such a villarotonda (figure 116).1 Although somewhat reduced in scale and showing but a sin-gle frontispiece 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 un

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