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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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rd Biddle ready filled with classical enthusiasm, to its imitation in buildings devoted topractical use. The step of building a house like a temple was finally taken by Jef-ferson himself in several of the pavilions of the University of Virginia, which hedesigned to serve as specimens of orders for the architectural lectures. To besure, these pavilions were not houses merely, since each contained the classroom 179 AMERICAN DOMESTIC ARCHITECTURE as well as the lodgings of a professor, but with the enlarged living quarters formen with families, the domestic use was physically the more important. The firstpavilion (figure 136), which followed a suggestion from William Thornton, itselfhad, in Jeffersons conception of it as showing itself above the dormitories, theform of a Doric prostyle temple of six columns, and a pediment the wholebreadth of the front; but it was raised above a story of arches, giving it a con-ventional academic character. The next two pavilions, which followed sugges-
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From a photograph by H. I\ Coot Figure 140. Berry Hill, Halifax County, Virginia. 1835 to 1840 tions by Latrobe, having columns the height of both stories, had neither of themthe temple pediment of full width. The temple form in its entirety, which doesnot appear in any of Latrobes sketches, was first adopted by Jefferson in thefourth pavilion to be built, begun in 1819. By 1822 three such temples, the Pa-vilions I, II (figure 137), and IV were completed,1 each with four columns acrossthe front. It was not long before the new example began to be followed in some of themost pretentious houses elsewhere, even though they did not share the same semi-public functions or the same didactic purpose. George Hadfield, whose training 1 For the documents and drawings concerning the design and building of the university, see Kimball,Thomas Jefferson, Architect, pp. 74-77, 186-192; W. A. Lambeth, Thomas Jefferson as an Architect(I9I3)- l8o HOUSES OF THE EARLY REPUBLIC in Rome had given him a prefe

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