Domestic architecture of the American colonies and of the early republic . Kenmore, Fredericksburg, Virginia Brice house, Annapolis Figure 49. Houses with a stair hall expanded to one side terior spaces are unbalanced. At the Chase house, where the lower run is centraland divides on the landing, the stairs are brought into relation to the balanced hall. A number of Colonial houses have a hall with the front part treated as a room,the stairs in a separate and smaller space to the rear (figure 47). Early examplesof this, such as the Governors Palace at Williamsburg, and Stenton, are of much 76 T
Domestic architecture of the American colonies and of the early republic . Kenmore, Fredericksburg, Virginia Brice house, Annapolis Figure 49. Houses with a stair hall expanded to one side terior spaces are unbalanced. At the Chase house, where the lower run is centraland divides on the landing, the stairs are brought into relation to the balanced hall. A number of Colonial houses have a hall with the front part treated as a room,the stairs in a separate and smaller space to the rear (figure 47). Early examplesof this, such as the Governors Palace at Williamsburg, and Stenton, are of much 76 THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY irregularity. After the middle of the century the scheme is reduced to the sym-metry seen at Carters Grove and Cliveden. In this form it has some affiliationwith such plans of Palladio as those of his Book II, plates 32, 41 (figure 48), and61 (figure 73), in which the central apartments constitute an inverted T, although
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