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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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Jerathmeel Peirce (Nichols) house, Salem. Samuel Mclntire, after 1779 iments in overmantels, between 1765 and 1769. The single actually dated exampleof a rocaille ceiling, in the Miles Brewton house, is from 1765-1769, and rocaillemotives, such as occur in a few other places in the decoration, may be paralleledelsewhere about 1768. There can be little doubt, then, that, whatever the date of thewalls of the house, the embellishment of the chief rooms was done not far from 1765. The Royall house, another building respecting which the documents and struc-ture have already been carefully studied, offers a case where a single element isexceptionally instructive. Comparison, instituted by Donald Millar, between the 139 AMERICAN DOMESTIC ARCHITECTURE Corinthian capitals of the room and a capital, nearly identical, from the Hancockhouse, preserved in Independence Hall, shows conclusively that these were carvedby the same hand. Since this is the largest of the Hancock capitals, it is evidently
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From a photograph by Frank Cousins Figure 108. John Reynolds (Morris) house, Philadelphia. 1786 to 1787 one from the Loer Rume panelled by William More in 1745-1746. We may con-clude that this work at the Royall house was done by More not far from that date. Where the detail is less rich or less significant, it may scarcely be possible todate the work so closely by its style. 140 THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY The characteristics of the Colonial style long survived the Revolution. Ittook time for the novel ideas of the following era to be widely diffused and adopted.Many even of the finest houses built immediately after the Revolution are scarcelytouched by any breath of innovation. Thus the Joseph Brown house in Provi-dence, built shortly before 1789, is closely akin in style to the Van Rensselaermanor-house of 1765. The older rooms of the Jerathmeel Peirce (Nichols) housein Salem, the first work of Samuel Mclntire, soon after 1779 (figure 107), wouldnot betray that they had not been execute

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