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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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, a raking mould-ing extends along the gable. Usually this goes by the chimneys, also, although inthe north gable of the Van Cortlandt house, Lower Yonkers, it is interrupted bythe chimney, as late as 1748. Here, as in the McPhedris house, the eaves cornice 1 E. £., W. Salmons Palladio Londinensis, 1738 (first edition, 1734), pi. 34; Batty Langleys City andCountry Builders . . . Treasury, 1745 (first edition, 1740), and Builders Jewel, 1752, pis. 89, 92; W. PainsPractical Builder, fourth edition, Boston, 1792, pis. 4, 5; etc. 84 THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY is mitred against the facade without turning the corner. It was in Graeme Park(figure 57) and in the Hancock house (figure 58) that a more academic treatmentwas first used, a short horizontal return on the gable-end, which became universalin the best later houses of the type. A truncation of the gable itself, analogous to that of the roof in these houses,securing the practical advantages of the vertical wall while reducing the effect of
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height, occurs in several instances. This form of roof, sometimes called the jerkin-head, is spoken of in estimates tor the Pinckney house in Charleston (figure 66) asa hippd wall roof, and again as a snug dutch roof. 1 In the earliest examplessoon after 1700—the Charles Read house (London Coffee-house) and the JoshuaCarpenter house in Philadelphia, with their steep roofs, as well as the Mulberry(figure 43), where it is used in connection with the gambrel—the motive ol its Smith, Dwelling Houses of Charleston, pp. 361, 367. 85 AMERICAN DOMESTIC ARCHITECTURE origin clearly appears. Although unacademic, it continued in occasional use whenthe slope was less, as in the outbuildings of Stratford, in the Pinckney house, 1746,in Kenmore, near Fredericksburg, and even after the Revolution in Woodlawn,built by a son of the owner of Kenmore. More commonly the gable, when retained, merely received a lower slope, con-forming to that of a pediment. This was already true of the Sergeant and Pen

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