Domestic architecture of the American colonies and of the early republic . n the roadwhich forms the continuation of the old Concord turnpike through the Port. One of them,in particular, we have noticed, as it has been in progress. It is a small edifice, the wholelength of which, including, the portico, may possibly be 30 ft., and the breadth 15 ft. The 1 Dunlap, Arts of Design (1918 ed.), vol. 3, pp. 212-213. 184 HOUSES OF THE EARLY REPUBLIC front of this little building is adorned with four massive columns, with elegantly carvedIonic capitals, the cost of which can scarcely have been less th
Domestic architecture of the American colonies and of the early republic . n the roadwhich forms the continuation of the old Concord turnpike through the Port. One of them,in particular, we have noticed, as it has been in progress. It is a small edifice, the wholelength of which, including, the portico, may possibly be 30 ft., and the breadth 15 ft. The 1 Dunlap, Arts of Design (1918 ed.), vol. 3, pp. 212-213. 184 HOUSES OF THE EARLY REPUBLIC front of this little building is adorned with four massive columns, with elegantly carvedIonic capitals, the cost of which can scarcely have been less than that of the rest of thehouse. There seems to be a prevailing passion for columns throughout the country. Onegentleman in an interior county, has surrounded his house with them, and his example hasbeen followed in a house in East In the backwoods states beyond the Alleghanies and the Ohio the imitation ofthe temple was even more universal than on the seaboard. When the wave of East-ern emigration of the thirties swept out along the newly opened Erie Canal and. Figure 144A. Bremo, Fluvanna County, VirginiaFrom measurements and sketches by Pleasants Pennington across the lakes, it brought with it this ruling ideal. In Michigan Greek enthusi-asm was particularly strong. The names of towns—Ypsilanti and Byron, Ionia andScio—perpetuate famous personalities and places in the Greek struggle for Woodward, in his first sketch for the organization of the state university, pre-ferred for it a Greek title, the Catholepistemiad ! When the institution came actu-ally into being, its several departments were housed in as many porticoed temples ofthe Muses. Little after the log cabins of the first settlers, side by side with them inmany instances, rose ambitious dwellings in the form of the temple. In the mostpretentious of these, Greek proportions and detail were strictly followed. The houseof Judge Robert S. Wilson in Ann Arbor (figure 141) has four columns of the
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