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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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ey were adopted in the main cornices and porch cornices of theForrester house (1818), the Joseph Peabody house (1819-1820, figure 191),1 andmany others. For the eaves-balustrade new forms likewise became current. The old scheme,of relatively narrow posts or pedestals with long, open rows of balusters between,was retained, to be sure, in many cases, but from 1800 a new scheme became in-creasingly popular: with short stretches of baluster openings only over the win-dows below, and long, solid panels between. This arrangement, which is shown inPains Practical House Carpenter, republished in Philadelphia in 1797, was 1 For the date see R. S. Rantoul in Historical Collections of the Essex Institute, vol. 24 (1887), p. 257. 232 HOUSES OF THE EARLY REPUBLIC adopted in the Gore house (figure 178), the Amory (Ticknor) house in Boston(figure 165), 1804, the Samuel Cook house, and, later, the Silsbee house in Salem(figure 173), 1818, and the Nathaniel Russell house in Charleston, finished before
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From a photograph bv Frunk Cousins Figure 193. Vestibule of the Octagon, Washington. William Thornton, 1798 to 1S00 1811—to mention datable examples. In the parapets of other houses these open-ings above the windows were filled not with balusters but with pierced interlacingcircles. Bulfinch introduced this treatment in his design for the houses at thefoot of Park Street, Boston, in 1804; it was brought to Portland the following year ^33 AMERICAN DOMESTIC ARCHITECTURE by Alexander Parris, who used it in the Hunnewell (Shepley) house (figure 112) andothers. Benjamin published a detail for it in 1806.1 In the Swan house, Dorchester(figure 146), the open panels contained Chinese lattice, which Jefferson continued touse in balcony railings until his death in 1826. The John Andrew house, Salem(1818), had fan motives in the parapet, alternating with panels of balusters. The ambitions of architecture under the republic included the adornment ofbuildings with figure sculpture, but this was

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