Domestic architecture of the American colonies and of the early republic . h bars remained heavy, beingordinarily iT4 to il 2 inches in width. Windows generally had a full architrave for casing, but in masonry housesthis was ordinarily of wood and put in shelter between the masonry jambs. Incertain instances after 1750, however, it was placed with greater regard for classi-cal correctness, projecting in front of the plane of the wall. Thus at Whitby, 1754,the tower window has its wooden casing on the face of the wall; at Mount Airy,1758, there are projecting architraves of cut stone; at Gunsto
Domestic architecture of the American colonies and of the early republic . h bars remained heavy, beingordinarily iT4 to il 2 inches in width. Windows generally had a full architrave for casing, but in masonry housesthis was ordinarily of wood and put in shelter between the masonry jambs. Incertain instances after 1750, however, it was placed with greater regard for classi-cal correctness, projecting in front of the plane of the wall. Thus at Whitby, 1754,the tower window has its wooden casing on the face of the wall; at Mount Airy,1758, there are projecting architraves of cut stone; at Gunston and Whitehall the 1 Arthur Gilman, Thomas Hancock, Atlantic Monthly, vol. II (1863), p. 701. 2 G. C. Mason, Jr., in American Architect, vol. 10 (1881), p. 83. 3 Memoirs of Eliza S. M. Quincy (1861), p. 91. I06 THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY windows of the hall are distinguished from the others by projecting architraves,which were used throughout at Monticello on the eve of the Revolution. Tn someof these instances and also occasionally in wooden houses the window was enriched. Figure 77. Doorway from Westfield, MassachusettsIn the Metropolitan Museum by a cornice, or a frieze and cornice. The earliest case is in the east front of theRoyall house, as early as 1737 (figure 61). Later examples remained always some-what exceptional, as was the pedimented window, which first appeared in the westfront of the Royall house, probably before 1750. Drayton Hall has pilasters house with its ordinary windows having semicircular arches was built in the 107 AMERICAN DOMESTIC ARCHITECTURE colonies before the Revolution, but a single long arched window was often placedover the stair landing. There is such a one in the McPhedris house in the Northand in Rosewell in the South, both before 1730, and others may be found downto the close of the period, although they tended to give way to the Palladianmotive. The Venetian or Palladian window, having a central arch rising aboverectangular side openi
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