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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
Digitizing Sponsor: Smithsonian Libraries

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of Miss N. D. Tupper most pilasters on the mullions, as in Bulfinchs design for the Hasket Derby man-sion. In the Salem houses of 1818 and following years, however, slender engagedcolumns and entablatures of great richness were adopted (figures 176 and 191), andheavier columns often repeated the scheme during the Greek revival. The enframement of the door, like its shape and filling, underwent modifica-tion. The favorite late Colonial form, with a pediment into which a curved tran-som broke up, was unusual after 1793, although in a few doorways, such as thatof Montpellier, remodelled in that year, a pediment was made thus to span one ofthe new elliptical fanlights (figure 186). Even in other relationships a pediment 2l8 HOUSES OF THE EARLY REPUBLIC on the door-casing soon became rare. Instead, there was generally a full horizon-tal entablature. A pair of light pilasters or engaged columns and an entablatureframing a doorway with semicircular transom occurs on numberless city houses of
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Figure 179. Doorway of the Gore houseCourtesy of Miss N. D. Tupper the period of Franklin Crescent and Sansoms buildings; and, under a portico, onnot a few country houses such as Home wood and Upsala, both begun in 1798. Onthe other hand, it was not uncommon, even without a portico, for a triple archeddoorway to have an archivolt only, as in the Bingham house, the George Read II 219 AMERICAN DOMESTIC ARCHITECTURE house in Newcastle, and the Gore house, or merely to be placed filling one of thebays of a shallow arcade, as in the Hersey Derby house or the houses at the footof Park Street, Boston. In such a case even the archivolt was absent. Similarlythe classicists simplified the treatment of the rectangular opening: Jefferson, underthe porticos of his University, used an architrave only; Latrobe, in triple square-

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