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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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rism,tended to reduce the elaboration of wall surface, and to concentrate attention onindividual members, chiefly of a functional character: doorways, windows, chim-neypieces, cornices, the centrepieces of ceilings, the strings and hand-rails of stairs. Panelling, which had been getting less common before the Revolution, soondisappeared entirely in favor of plain surfaces of plaster. In a few houses strippanels were applied to the plastered walls in the Adam manner. Mclntire sketched 239 AMERICAN DOMESTIC ARCHITECTURE such a treatment in the Barrell house and employed it in the oval room of theDerby mansion. The profiles of the mouldings he derived from Pains PracticalHouse Carpenter, recently issued. The pedestal-like dado, generally plain, of lateColonial times, persisted very generally down to 1820. Often, however, the plas-ter was carried down to the baseboard, leaving the dado cap or surbase as anisolated band, decorated in many cases with reedings, dentils, interlaces, floral or
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Figure 200. Ballroom, Lyman house, Waltham wave motives. No one of these has any general priority in time, and many ofthem appear simultaneously in a single building, as in the Morton house, 1796.Even the surbase was omitted with increasing frequency as the Greek influencegathered strength. Wall-paper continued much in use and silk was occasionallyemployed; but, as on the eve of the Revolution, the most advanced practiceeschewed them. Among houses building in 1800, Monticello, the Octagon, Home-wood, and others have none. In the elegant interior of about 1830—as we see itin a water-color by Alexander Jackson Davis for the Stevens house at CollegePlace and Murray Street, New York (figure 198),1 perfectly plain wall surfaces 1 In the gallery of the New York Historical Society, and reproduced by kind permission of the Society. 24O HOUSES OF THE EARLY REPUBLIC provide a foil for the stately architectural members and lor rich furniture, pic-tures, mirrors, and carpet. Architectonic treat

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