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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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se (figure 80)—finest of all—with its proportions, doorways,chimneypiece, and portraits reminiscent of the splendid Double Cube at Wilton inEngland. Restriction of the panelling to two sides or one side of the room, or to the chimney-breast only, was chiefly a question of means or of the importance ofthe room. Limitation of panelling merely to a dado began in the stair halls, whereawkward shapes were otherwise encountered. Although Tuckahoe and Westover 1 Thomas Jefferson, Architect, p. 167.115 AMERICAN DOMESTIC ARCHITECTURE (figure 81) have stair halls completely panelled, these do not recur in dated exam-ples at a later time. In the fifties, with Woodford and Gunston, appear for thefirst time houses without panelling and having only a plain dado. The decreasing use of panelling, in some of the finest houses, was closely relatedto the development of paper-hangings. Perhaps the earliest use of them is men-tioned in the well-known letter of Thomas Hancock, January 23, 1737-8, order-
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Figure 85. Drawing-room from Marmion, VirginiaIn the Metropolitan Museum ing some for his house, where he speaks of hangings brought over three or fouryears previous, with great variety of Birds, Peacocks, Macoys, Squirrels, Mon-keys, Fruit & Flowers.1 The use of paper-hangings increased steadily down to the Revolution and after it.2 Two of the most magnificent sets are those madespecially for the Jeremiah Lee house, built 1768, and the Van Rensselaer manor-house, for which the bill, dated 1768, is preserved.3 Both these include views of 1 Quoted in full by Arthur Gilman, The Hancock House, Atlantic Monthly, vol. II (1863), pp. 692-707. 2 Cf. J. B. Felt, Annals of Salem, second edition (1845), vol. 1, p. 406; and Bishop, American Manufac-tures, vol. 1, pp. 208-210. 3 M. T. Reynolds, The Colonial Buildings of Rensselaerwyck, Architectural Record, vol. 4 (1895), p. 428. Il6 THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY Roman ruins in rocaille frames. Not all the rooms from which panelling was ban-ished see

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