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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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of these pavilions were not mere summer-houses,but had living accommodations for the owner and two or three servants. JohnPlaws Rural Architecture, published in 1794, of which Bulfinch owned an edi-tion,1 included drawings of a circular house on Lake Windermere, designed andbuilt by the author. There were few of the leading American designers who didnot at least toy with such an idea. Jefferson made a sketch as early as 1794, as a 1 E. S. Bulfinch, Charles Bulfinch, p. 83. 177 AMERICAN DOMESTIC ARCHITECTURE forerunner of the Poplar Forest scheme, of a casino in circular form: a round centralroom with a colonnade encircling it part-way, the remaining segments havingtwo elliptical rooms inscribed in them.1 McComb devised a scheme closely simi-lar.2 Latrobe designed for the British minister, Robert Liston, in 1800, a circularcasino of four stories, showing the greatest ingenuity in interior arrangements (fig-ure 135).3 None of these seem to have reached execution, but later at least one
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From a photograph by H. l\ Cook Figure 138. Arlington, Alexandria County, Virginia such was erected, the Enoch Robinson house at Spring Hill, Somerville, Massachu-setts. On the lower floor were an oval parlor and a circular library; up-stairs thebedrooms opened on a central rotunda.4 It was long after Jeffersons first suggestion at Williamsburg before the templewas again taken as a model for a dwelling, but when it finally was, it quickly be-came the universal type. Its victory was rendered possible by the adoption mean- 1 Kimball, Thomas Jefferson, Architect, fig. 133. 2 McComb collection, New York Historical Society, no. 254. 3 Drawings in possession of Ferdinand C. Latrobe, of Baltimore. 4 Drawings are published by G. E. Woodward, The House, A Manual of Rural Architecture (1869), atp. 92. Cf. the description in Notes and Queries of the Boston Transcript, 1918, no. 3895. A recent account,with a photograph and drawings, is in Old-Time New England, vol. 11 (1921), pp. 173-175. I78 HOU

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