Domestic architecture of the American colonies and of the early republic . e of the Woodlands, Philadelphia. 1788Courtesy of Ogden Codman had, in the Barrell house, ingeniously fitted a double stair, chiefly with straightruns, in a hall with semicircular ends (figures 120 and 194), used, in the ThomasRussell house, Charlestown, a stair about a broad central well of this form. Mcln-tire sketched it, and imitated it in the Hasket Derby house. Latrobe used it inthe Markoe house in Philadelphia and the Van Ness house (figures 111 and 113).In these and other houses the well was kept of regular form
Domestic architecture of the American colonies and of the early republic . e of the Woodlands, Philadelphia. 1788Courtesy of Ogden Codman had, in the Barrell house, ingeniously fitted a double stair, chiefly with straightruns, in a hall with semicircular ends (figures 120 and 194), used, in the ThomasRussell house, Charlestown, a stair about a broad central well of this form. Mcln-tire sketched it, and imitated it in the Hasket Derby house. Latrobe used it inthe Markoe house in Philadelphia and the Van Ness house (figures 111 and 113).In these and other houses the well was kept of regular form, whether steps sur-rounded it on all sides or landings intervened. 1 Griswold, The Republican Court (1856), p. HOUSES OF THE EARLY REPUBLIC A staircase itself semicircular, without any straight portion, and with a semi-circular well, was used by Bulfinch in the Hersey Derby house (1799), and other side of the well might also be rounded to make a full circle, as in theManigault house in Charleston, the Gore house (1799-1804, figure 195), the Crafts. Figure 197. Crafts house, Roxbury. Plan. Peter Banner, 1805From a measured drawing by Ogden Codman house (1805), the Wickham house in Richmond (1812), and others. Both schemesare taken over from Bulfinch in 1806 in Benjamins American Builders Com-panion. An elliptical well, wholly or part-way around, was likewise in use at the samedates, in Woodlawn, in the Radcliffe house and the Nathaniel Russell house (figure126) in Charleston, and in studies by Bulfinch and Parris. Domed rooms, unknown in Colonial days, were not limited to houses which 237 AMERICAN DOMESTIC ARCHITECTURE had a visible exterior dome, such as Monticello and the David Sears house. Thegreat circular saloons of the Swan house in Roxbury (figure 146), and the JonathanMason house in Boston, as well as the vestibule of the Woodlands (figure 196),had domes behind vertical exterior walls. Houses with a central circular hallmight have a tall dome benea
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