Domestic architecture of the American colonies and of the early republic . , and a plan of the Thomas Rus-sell house in Charlestown showing its elliptical stair. In a country house in Wal-tham for Theodore Lyman, who purchased the land in 1793, Mclntire applied hisnewly acquired vocabulary of spatial forms by using a projecting oval the plan is on conventional lines, being traversed by corridors. As sug- 166 HOUSES OF THE EARLY REPUBLIC gestions for the famous mansion-house built by Elias Hasket Derby in 1795-1799,the owners collected designs from many sources. The plan made tor
Domestic architecture of the American colonies and of the early republic . , and a plan of the Thomas Rus-sell house in Charlestown showing its elliptical stair. In a country house in Wal-tham for Theodore Lyman, who purchased the land in 1793, Mclntire applied hisnewly acquired vocabulary of spatial forms by using a projecting oval the plan is on conventional lines, being traversed by corridors. As sug- 166 HOUSES OF THE EARLY REPUBLIC gestions for the famous mansion-house built by Elias Hasket Derby in 1795-1799,the owners collected designs from many sources. The plan made tor it by Bulfinchhas a suite of rectangular rooms across the garden front, approached by a passagewith the stairs at one side. Not satisfied with this, Mclntire, who made the finaldesigns, introduced the innovations which Bulfinch had made elsewhere: the ovalsaloon of the Barrel! house, preceded by the elliptical stair hall of the Russellhouse, making an axial suite of great variety and interest. In other parts of the country the scheme was likewise a favorite. Jefferson,. Copyright by J. B. Lipfincclt Co. Figure 126. Plan of the Russell houseCharleston. Finished 1811 From a drawing by Albert Simmons in Smiths Dwelling Houses of Charleston
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