Domestic architecture of the American colonies and of the early republic . From a photograph fry Frank C Figure 90. Mantel in room to left of hall, Lee house. 1768 tion moulding. This latter may be seen in some rooms of the Jeremiah Lee houseas late as 1768. The majority of chimneypieces after 1750, however, had a specialovermantel: a single large panel framed by an architrave, more or less early overmantels are to be found at Graeme Park, built in 1721, but these 111 THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY are highly exceptional for their time. Ears on the architraves are almost univer-sal, as
Domestic architecture of the American colonies and of the early republic . From a photograph fry Frank C Figure 90. Mantel in room to left of hall, Lee house. 1768 tion moulding. This latter may be seen in some rooms of the Jeremiah Lee houseas late as 1768. The majority of chimneypieces after 1750, however, had a specialovermantel: a single large panel framed by an architrave, more or less early overmantels are to be found at Graeme Park, built in 1721, but these 111 THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY are highly exceptional for their time. Ears on the architraves are almost univer-sal, as elsewhere in Colonial times, and a pediment, always broken, was very com-mon from the beginning. After 1760 the scroll pediment, or a similar treatment of. Figure 91. Chimneypiece from Swans British Architect (1745), plate 51Prototype of the Lee house mantel the architrave, frequently occurs, contemporary with the employment of this fea-ture in doors: at Mount Pleasant, the Schuyler, Van Rensselaer, Miles Brewton,Jeremiah Lee, and John Stuart houses. At Whitby, 1754, and Mount Pleasant 123 AMERICAN DOMESTIC ARCHITECTURE near by, after 1761, there is an overmantel, notwithstanding the absence of amantel-shelf, the architraves above and below being united by small projectingconsoles. From about the same time flat consoles buttressing the overmantel werealso adopted, as for the architrave of the fireplace opening itself: at Woodford, Gun-ston, the Miles Brewton, Lee, and Stuart houses. In a few chimneypieces, at theBrandford (Horry) house, Charleston, and the Brewton and Van Rensselaer houses,the overmantel is flanked by small pilasters. The exact date of the Horry houseis uncertain, but it is surely after 1751 and before 1767; the others a
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