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
Digitizing Sponsor: Smithsonian Libraries

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per 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 treatment ol the walls by an order, which had been already fall-ing into disuse under rococo influence, was now generally abjured, and persistedonly in exceptional cases. Some of these were essentially survivals ol Colonialpilaster treatment, translated into Adam proportions and detail. Thus, in finish-
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Figure 201. Interior from the Barrell house, Charlestown. Charles Bulfinch, 1792 Courtesy of Ogden Codman ing the Adam parlor of the Jerathmeel Peirce house (figure 199), some score ofyears later than the building, Mclntire used pilasters to support an entablaturespanning the recesses at either side of the chimney-breast. The most characteristicexamples, however, now made use ol the column, with its greater functional andmonumental quality. The Williams house at 1234 Washington Street, Boston, hadAdam Corinthian columns in the same relations as the pilasters of the Peircehouse: in the recesses beside the fireplace, resting on a dado. The ballroom of theLyman house, an addition, has similar columns rising from the floor, very tall andslender, with a screen of columns also at the other end of the room (figure 200). AMERICAN DOMESTIC ARCHITECTURE The vestibule of the Woodlands (1788) is unique in having a unified columnartreatment throughout (figure 196). Its circular cornice is supporte

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