Domestic architecture of the American colonies and of the early republic . ere this was not regardedas a basement. Examples occasionally occur further north, as in the Corbit house,Odessa, Delaware, built 1772 to 1774. The arrangement was not uncommon in 1 Published in full by G. C. Mason, Jr., in American Architect, vol. 10 (1881), p. R. H. Smith, Dwelling Houses of Charleston (1917), pp. 307-310. 69 AMERICAN DOMESTIC ARCHITECTURE English academic houses, being early exemplified in Coleshill. In the South thekitchen was henceforth placed outside the house in a detached building. Elemen
Domestic architecture of the American colonies and of the early republic . ere this was not regardedas a basement. Examples occasionally occur further north, as in the Corbit house,Odessa, Delaware, built 1772 to 1774. The arrangement was not uncommon in 1 Published in full by G. C. Mason, Jr., in American Architect, vol. 10 (1881), p. R. H. Smith, Dwelling Houses of Charleston (1917), pp. 307-310. 69 AMERICAN DOMESTIC ARCHITECTURE English academic houses, being early exemplified in Coleshill. In the South thekitchen was henceforth placed outside the house in a detached building. Elements of circulation received a development which, with the increased num-ber ol rooms, for the first time made privacy possible. Henceforth, as in Europesince about 1640, the ideal was, by means of hallways, to make it unnecessary totraverse any room to reach another. Further privacy and seclusion of the activi-ties of servants were secured by the provision of a secondary staircase. This ap-pears in Rosewell and Stenton before 1730, the Hancock house, Boston, 1737 (figure. Figure 44. Plan of Graeme Park, Horsham, Pennsylvania. John Kirk, 1721 to 1722 40), the John Vassall house, Cambridge, 1759, Cliveden, after 1763, the Chase house,Annapolis, 1765, and elsewhere, but it remained exceptional even in fine houses. In form the house of the eighteenth century, typically, was compact in mass,two rooms deep from the start in both stories, with ample hallways. Such ascheme, first used, as we have seen, in the Tufts and Sergeant houses about 1680,was not universally adopted with the opening of the new century, however, evenin the most pretentious houses. With the tendency usual in the history of archi-tecture, to greater conservatism in general form than in detail, some of these fol-lowed plans which belonged essentially to the previous period. Thus the H plan, already familiar to us in Fairfield, and in the Slate House,was retained in several notable houses, especially in Virginia, cont
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