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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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e Corinthian order.2Even paper-hangings began to be manufactured in the colonies by 1763.3 Domes-tic marble remained unused here until some time after the Revolution, and themarble used in chimneypieces was of foreign varieties. In the case of Tryons Arthur Oilman, The Hancock House, Atlantic Monthly, vol. II (1863), p. 702. 2 Hancock MSS., Boston Public Library. The pilasters are shown in a photograph in the Hancock Collec-tion at the Old State House, Boston. 3 Bishop, American Manufactures, vol. 1 (1861), p. 209. 113 AMERICAN DOMESTIC ARCHITECTURE Palace, we learn expressly from a letter of 1769 that besides window-sash and leadtor roofing, four of the principal chimney pieces are arrived also from London,with the hinges, locks, and other articles for the finishing this much admired struc-ture.1 The one described is of marble. In any attempt to trace the development of interior features there is specialdifficulty due to the frequency of later insertions and remodellings. Where addi-
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From a photograph by H. P. Cook Figure 83. Northeast room at Tuckahoe. Before 1730. Mantel, post-Revolutionary tions were made after a long interval, as in the case of the post-Revolutionary man-telpieces at Tuckahoe, the Mulberry, and the two Van Cortlandt houses, the dif-ference of style is unmistakable. There is also the possibility, however, of changesmade soon after the first building. Thus, as we have just seen, although the Han-cock house was occupied in 1740, the panelling of its great rooms was not doneuntil 1745. In the case of Monticello, even more deceptive additions were made. 1 Colonial Records of North Carolina, vol. 8 (1890), pp. 7-8. II4 THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY For the dining-room window the inner architrave had been put up before 1775,but the frieze and cornice were added about 1803.1 Panelling was adopted in place of wainscot sheathing about 1700. Such pan-elling of rooms in wood throughout (figure 79) was proportionately commoner inthe first half of the century than

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