Identifier: domesticarchite00kimb (find matches)
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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of what has come to be known as the DutchColonial style (figure 148). It is scarcely Colonial in the strict sense, and notDutch in origin at all. Nothing analogous is known in Holland. On the otherhand, diagrams of the low curb roof of this type were common in English hand-books after 1733.1 It appears in American reprints after the war (figure 149)2when its popularity is to be explained by the general tendency toward reducingthe height of roofs. 1 E. g., F. Price, British Carpenter (1733), pi. Ik; W. Salmon, Palladio Londinensis (1734), pi. 34;B. Langley, City and Country Builders . . . Treasury (1745 ed.), supplementary plates; Builders Jewel(1746), pi. 92, etc. 2 E. g., W. Pain, Practical Builder (Boston, 1792), pi. 7. 195 AMERICAN DOMESTIC ARCHITECTURE A development of republican days new in America was the block of severalhouses of unified design. The first of these, Franklin Crescent in Boston (figure150), was designed and financed by Bulfinch, beginning in 1793. It was likewise
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From a photograph by Frank Coitsins Figure 155. The Woodlands, Philadelphia. Entrance front asremodelled, 1788 the most ambitious. Sixteen houses of three stories and a basement were arrangedin a solid crescent, the pair at each end brought forward to constitute a pavilion,and a special motive placed in the centre, arching a cross street. Opposite, facing 196 HOUSES OF THE EARLY REPUBLIC the crescent, were two pairs of larger semi-detached houses of similar treatment.When in 1801 the town of Boston, in which Bulfinch was chairman of the Select-men, sold the lots on Park Street, cut from the Common, to private owners, thedeeds contained the provision that all buildings to be erected on said bargainedpremises shall be regular and uniform with the other buildings that may be erectedon the other lots. Under this condition Bulfinch designed, among others, the

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