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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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ded to banish from the ex-terior the baroque forms used by Wren, such as scroll pediments and broken formsgenerally, for the interior these persisted in company with the novel and floridrocaille ornamentation of Louis XV. The assertion used often to be made that the interior finish, as well as thebricks, of the old mansions was imported.1 We are not aware, however, of authen- 1 Earliest in the account of Westover in William Dunlaps History of the Arts of Design in the UnitedStates (1834), vol. i, pp. 286 ff. 112 THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY tic instances of this except in the case of paper-hangings, hardware, and marblefireplace facings and mantels. It is true that Thomas Hancock wrote from hisnew house to England, March 22, 1739-40: I pray the favor of you Enquirewhat a pr. of Capitolls will cost me to be carved in London of the CorinthianOrder, 16^2 Inches One Way and 9 ye Other—to be well done,1 but we do notknow that he ordered them. On the contrary, we learn from the bills of William
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From a photograph by R. IV. Holsinger Figure 82. The dining-room, Monticello. Thomas Jefferson. 1771 to 1775 More against Hancock that when the lower room and the chamber were wain-scoted in 1745, More made the two pare of pilasters of the Corinthian order.2Even paper-hangings began to be manufactured in the colonies by 1763.3 Domes-tic marble remained unused here until some time after the Revolution, and themarble used in chimneypieces was of foreign varieties. In the case of Tryons Arthur Oilman, The Hancock House, Atlantic Monthly, vol. II (1863), p. 702. 2 Hancock MSS., Boston Public Library. The pilasters are shown in a photograph in the Hancock Collec-tion at the Old State House, Boston. 3 Bishop, American Manufactures, vol. 1 (1861), p. 209. 113 AMERICAN DOMESTIC ARCHITECTURE Palace, we learn expressly from a letter of 1769 that besides window-sash and leadtor roofing, four of the principal chimney pieces are arrived also from London,with the hinges, locks, and other articles f

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