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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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rer, in the Architectural Record, vol. 50 (1921), pp. 225-226. To assign to Wellford, as Kocher does, all the ornament of these two mantels, and then all those of othermantels having ornaments identical with some of these, and so forth, even to Salem in 1799, is to carry infer-ence too far. 2 Bulletin of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, vol. 14 (1919), pp. 36-37. 258 HOUSES OF THE EARLY REPUBLIC It occurs in substantially the same form in the cornice of a room from Haverhillbelonging to the Metropolitan Museum (figure 219). Summarizing the development of style in interior detail, we may distinguishseveral successive phases. First, a transitional or post-Colonial phase, repre-sented by the Langdon, John Reynolds, and John Brown houses, in which certainminor elements of novelty appear in houses fundamentally Colonial in style. Sec-ondly, the phase of Adam inspiration proper, beginning with isolated houses in theeighties, but dominating from around 1792 to about the time of the Embargo of
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Figure 217. Mantel with ornament by Robert Wellford, after 1813In the Metropolitan Museum 1807. Then followed the era of free modification of Adam forms exemplified byBenjamins book of 1806 and the Salem houses after the peace of 1815. Finally,about 1825, begins the supremacy of Greek forms. A word may be permitted in conclusion on the forces which ultimately put theclassic style in eclipse. Romanticism and rationalism combined to overshadow it.Beginning with Latrobes design for Sedgley near Philadelphia (1797), and stimu-lated by Irvings romantic Sunnyside (1835), tne Gothic revival began in domesticarchitecture. As the English cottage style it won the support of H. W. S. Cleve- 259 AMERICAN DOMESTIC ARCHITECTURE land in his rationalistic article of 1836 in the North American Review, and waschampioned in the works of Andrew Jackson Downing from 1842. By 1848 Mrs.Louisa Carolina Tuthill, in her sketch of the condition of architecture in the UnitedStates, could speak of the Greek mania

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