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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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Front a photograph by Frank Cousins Figure 209. Mantel from the Nathan Read house, Salem, now in theHooper house, Danvers. Samuel Mclntire, 1793 Several mantels likewise remain in the Hersey Derby house, an authenticated workby Bulfinch from after 1799. Many examples of generally similar character anddate to these from New England may be found in other regions. 249 AMERICAN DOMESTIC ARCHITECTURE No special priority seems to have subsisted in the employment, as mantel sup-ports, of engaged columns, pilasters, half-pilasters, or panels of a pilaster-like char-acter. All alike are shown in handbooks of the nineties. Free-stancjring columnsor pairs of slender columns, however, did not come into use in American Adammantels until 1800. The first dated instances come, respectively, from Homewoodand from the William Gray house (Essex House) at Salem. Both these show in
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Figure 210. Mantel from the Harrison Gray Otis house, Cambridge Street, Boston. 1795Courtesy of the Society for the Preservation of New England Antiquities different ways the beginnings of a tendency to modify the forms of the orders in afanciful and capricious manner. The mantel in the southwest room at Homewoodhas a colonnette rising directly to the under side of its cornice. The Gray mantelhas colonnettes of quatrefoil plan—of Gothic architecture improved by rules andproportions—although arrangement, mouldings, and ornament remain the sameas in thoroughly classic examples. Raynerd in the American Builders Com-panion (1806) shows a colonnette of this sort, as well as slender coupled colon-nettes. A tall and very flat console reaching to the floor, which had been used atWoodlawn about 1800, also appears there. 250

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