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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
Digitizing Sponsor: Smithsonian Libraries

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From a photograph by Fra)ik Cousins Figure 207. Mantel and cornice in the drawing-room at the OctagonWilliam Thornton, 1798 to 1800 ported by an order, so that the Tuscan ones in minor rooms at the University areof enormous size. With the supremacy of Greek forms a full entablature once morebecame the general rule. 246 HOUSES OF THE EARLY REPUBLIC Adam sunbursts were adopted in the ceilings at Mount Vernon, as we haveseen, just as the Revolution broke out. A richer ceiling of the same sort distin-guished Solitude (figure 204), built immediately after the war for John Perm, freshfrom England. The Practical House Carpenter, which seems to have been thework of William Pain mentioned in Mclntires inventory,1 showed ceilings of thischaracter, and Mclntire drew on its plates 92 and 93 lor his ceiling in the oval
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From a photograph by Frank Cousins Figure 208. Mantel in the dining-room at the Octagon. William Thornton, 1798 to 1800 room of the Hasket Derby house. Until 1812 or later such ceilings remained invogue for rooms of special importance, being used in the Hersey Derby, NathanielRussell (figure 205), and Wickham houses, among others. Raynerd drew a plateof them for the American Builders Companion, in 1806. As time went on orna-ment tended to be limited to a central rosette. This was the case in the Radcliffehouse in Charleston, from 1806. The Andrew house in Salem has one, with fourquarter-rosettes in the corners of the ceiling (figure 206). In spite of the forms of 1 Essex Probate Records, vol. 380, p. 367.247 AMERICAN DOMESTIC ARCHITECTURE the leaves here, their increasing weight and the smooth border-mouldings portendthe coming of Victorianism. The chief feature of the interiors, even more than in Colonial days, was thechimneypiece. Until after 1790 it generally conformed to late Colo

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