Domestic architecture of the American colonies and of the early republic . Figure 67. Shirley Place, Roxbury, Massachusetts. After 1746Courtesy of William Sumner Appleton AMERICAN DOMESTIC ARCHITECTURE and soon after, the order consists of pilasters, each with an individual fragment ofarchitrave and frieze, and perhaps also of pedestal. This was the way the orderswere generally figured in the popular handbooks, by a single column with entabla-ture and pedestal mitred back at either side. Their use in this form was not con-fined to the colonies: it may be seen even in such magnificent English h
Domestic architecture of the American colonies and of the early republic . Figure 67. Shirley Place, Roxbury, Massachusetts. After 1746Courtesy of William Sumner Appleton AMERICAN DOMESTIC ARCHITECTURE and soon after, the order consists of pilasters, each with an individual fragment ofarchitrave and frieze, and perhaps also of pedestal. This was the way the orderswere generally figured in the popular handbooks, by a single column with entabla-ture and pedestal mitred back at either side. Their use in this form was not con-fined to the colonies: it may be seen even in such magnificent English houses asStoneleigh Abbey (figure 69), to the central block of which the Royall facade is. From a photographby Frank Cousins Figure 68. John Vassall (Longfellow) house, Cambridge. 1759 closely akin. It had the practical advantage of allowing more height for the win-dows of the upper story. This advantage was foregone in the central pavilion ofthe Pinckney house, however, as well as in the Apthorpe house in New York,ascribed to 1767,1 where a full entablature completely encircles the house. In the lateral arrangement of columnar elements the earliest examples wereamong the most ambitious. The Pinckney house has four pilasters forming a cen-tral frontispiece with a pediment, the front of Shirley Place has pilasters at everybay, with those of the end bays coupled, constituting end pavilions. In contrast 1 Memorial History of New York, vol. 2 (1892), p. 432, note. 96 THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY with these, the Royall house has merely a single pilaster at either end, the Vassalland Apthorp houses, one at each end and one at either side of the projecting cen-tral pavilion. At Shirley
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