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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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hisstudies for the Government House in New York, and Alexander Parris built onein 1816 over the saloon of the David Sears house. The cupola, essentially a littledome on a tall drum, likewise received in a few houses such as Hampton, Mary-land, and the Hasket Derby house, a treatment more in harmony with its monu- 1 Chapter III. 2 Kimball, Thomas Jefferson, Architect, figs. 176, 177, and p. 195. 3 Letter to Comtesse de Tesse, March 20, 1787. Lipscomb, Writings of Jefferson (1907), vol. 6, p. 102. 4 Thomas Jefferson, Architect, fig. 62. 6 lb., figs. 205-206. !94 \ HOUSES OF THE EARLY REPUBLIC mental origins, but after 1795 the more classical form of the saucer dome waspreferred. In less pretentious houses older roof forms persisted long after the Revolution,but not without undergoing significant modifications. Thus the gambrel, whichthen had a great vogue in the regions about New York City, was made lower andflatter. The Dyckman farmhouse on Manhattan, built after 1783, well illustrates
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Figure 154. Jerathmeel Peirce (Nichols) house, Salem this, an outstanding characteristic of what has come to be known as the DutchColonial style (figure 148). It is scarcely Colonial in the strict sense, and notDutch in origin at all. Nothing analogous is known in Holland. On the otherhand, diagrams of the low curb roof of this type were common in English hand-books after 1733.1 It appears in American reprints after the war (figure 149)2when its popularity is to be explained by the general tendency toward reducingthe height of roofs. 1 E. g., F. Price, British Carpenter (1733), pi. Ik; W. Salmon, Palladio Londinensis (1734), pi. 34;B. Langley, City and Country Builders . . . Treasury (1745 ed.), supplementary plates; Builders Jewel(1746), pi. 92, etc. 2 E. g., W. Pain, Practical Builder (Boston, 1792), pi. 7. 195 AMERICAN DOMESTIC ARCHITECTURE A development of republican days new in America was the block of severalhouses of unified design. The first of these, Franklin Crescent in Bost

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