Domestic architecture of the American colonies and of the early republic . not confined to emphasis on acentral saloon toward the garden. The splendid house begun by LEnfant for Rob- 1 Kimball, Thomas Jefferson, Architect, fig. 225. 2 Cf. ib., p. 56. The drawing reproduced there as fig. 171 has been thought to be for this house. If so,it was modified in execution, not to speak of later remodellings. 3 lb., figs. 173, 185-192, and 205-206 respectively. 4 lb., figs. 217-224, 230. 169 AMERICAN DOMESTIC ARCHITECTURE ert Morris (figure 128), 1793-1801, had end pavilions with curved faces, analo-gou
Domestic architecture of the American colonies and of the early republic . not confined to emphasis on acentral saloon toward the garden. The splendid house begun by LEnfant for Rob- 1 Kimball, Thomas Jefferson, Architect, fig. 225. 2 Cf. ib., p. 56. The drawing reproduced there as fig. 171 has been thought to be for this house. If so,it was modified in execution, not to speak of later remodellings. 3 lb., figs. 173, 185-192, and 205-206 respectively. 4 lb., figs. 217-224, 230. 169 AMERICAN DOMESTIC ARCHITECTURE ert Morris (figure 128), 1793-1801, had end pavilions with curved faces, analo-gous to those of the Hotel Moras (Biron) in Paris. The last of the town housesbuilt by Bulfinch in 1807 for Harrison Gray Otis, on Beacon Street, Boston, on arestricted site, has an oval drawing-room at one side overlooking the rear Joseph Manigault house in Charleston, reputed to have been designed byGabriel Manigault, has the dining-room ending in a curved bay, and the stairs ina semicircular bay at the front. The Middleton-Pinckney house at Charleston has n n. Figure 130. Van Ness house, Washington. Front elevation. Benjamin Henry Latrobe 1813 to 1819 From a measured drawing by Ogden Codman similar features. Sometimes in a pair of symmetrical houses a bay was placed ateither end of the front, as in the house at 55 Beacon Street, Boston, long occupiedby the historian Prescott, or the one formerly standing at Summer and ArchStreets, the home of Edward Everett. A special group is formed by the townhouses on corner lots which have a corner entrance in a circular pavilion. Themost noted of these is the so-called Octagon House in Washington (figure 129),designed by Thornton for John Tayloe, and built in 1798-1800. As in the case ofTudor Place, Thornton made an elaborate series of preliminary studies. The planselected for execution has a circular vestibule on the corner, with the stair hall 170 a z
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