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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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horp houses in Cambridge. Meanwhile, in the arched door heads cominginto use after 1757, semicircular transoms or fanlights now first appeared, super-seding both the older forms. The elliptical arch of the Miles Brewton house alsohas its fanlight. No instance of side-lights, included within the main door opening,exists before the Revolution, although narrow windows at either side are com-bined with the door in an inclusive architectural motive in the Schuyler and Chasehouses, from the late sixties, and others. Wooden bars were the rule in transomsprior to the War of Independence. The enframement of doorways was at first merely an architrave, as in Tucka-hoe, the Mulberry, Graeme Park, and Stenton (figure 75), all by 1728, and 102 THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY examples of this can be found in masonry houses down to the time of Whitby,1754. Certain pretentious houses of this period had rusticated blocks instead ofan architrave, notably Shirley Place, after 1746, with its heavy key-blocks. From
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From a photograph by Frank Cousins Figure 75. The doorway at Stenton. 1728 about 1725, however, it had become almost universal to have a more elaboratecrown, with frieze and cornice in some form, generally supported by either con-soles or an order. The two schemes appear almost simultaneously, consoles atRosewell, pilasters at Westover, if these belong to the original work. Both occur AMERICAN DOMESTIC ARCHITECTURE in the North in the east doorway of the Royall house (figure 61), the console serv-ing as key-block.1 Here, as later in the Hancock house and others, the order wasrelieved against a rusticated background. Widely overhanging brackets are rarein American houses, the two dated examples being in the doorway of the Hancockhouse, where they support a balcony, and that of the Ayrault house, where theycarry a hemispherical hood. Both are from the late thirties. English examplesare numerous; one hood not dissimilar bears the date 1703.2 Engaged columns,bolder in relief, were first a

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