Domestic architecture of the American colonies and of the early republic . these mantels were furnished especially in Pains Brit-ish Palladio (1788 ff.),3 and Practical House Carpenter (1792 ff.),4 the lattersoon republished in America. Of native works, Benjamins first book, The Coun-try Builders Assistant (1797) contained several of a similar character. The earliest existing mantel of the sort made in this country is one from Mcln-tires Nathan Read house in Salem, 1793, now removed to The Lindens, Danvers(figure 209). As the Read house was so largely inspired by Bulfinchs Barrell house,built
Domestic architecture of the American colonies and of the early republic . these mantels were furnished especially in Pains Brit-ish Palladio (1788 ff.),3 and Practical House Carpenter (1792 ff.),4 the lattersoon republished in America. Of native works, Benjamins first book, The Coun-try Builders Assistant (1797) contained several of a similar character. The earliest existing mantel of the sort made in this country is one from Mcln-tires Nathan Read house in Salem, 1793, now removed to The Lindens, Danvers(figure 209). As the Read house was so largely inspired by Bulfinchs Barrell house,built the previous year, we may doubtless assume that it contained similar mantels, 1 Wilstach, Mount Vernon, p. 1743 E. g., pis. 16 and 17. 2 Glenn Brown, The Octagon (1916), p. E. g., pis. 80-82. 248 HOUSES OF THE EARLY REPUBLIC although these were later replaced by uninteresting ones of marble. Others, whichmay show us what Bulfmchs early mantels were like, are still preserved in the Otishouse on Cambridge Street (figure 210), 1795, and in the Gore house (figure 211).. Front a photograph by Frank Cousins Figure 209. Mantel from the Nathan Read house, Salem, now in theHooper house, Danvers. Samuel Mclntire, 1793 Several mantels likewise remain in the Hersey Derby house, an authenticated workby Bulfinch from after 1799. Many examples of generally similar character anddate to these from New England may be found in other regions. 249 AMERICAN DOMESTIC ARCHITECTURE No special priority seems to have subsisted in the employment, as mantel sup-ports, of engaged columns, pilasters, half-pilasters, or panels of a pilaster-like char-acter. All alike are shown in handbooks of the nineties. Free-stancjring columnsor pairs of slender columns, however, did not come into use in American Adammantels until 1800. The first dated instances come, respectively, from Homewoodand from the William Gray house (Essex House) at Salem. Both these show in
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