Domestic architecture of the American colonies and of the early republic . the John Vassall (Longfellow) house. A two-storied portico of superposed orders, four columns in width, won forDrayton Hall in 1758 the appellation of a Here the upper columnsstand on pedestals. In the Miles Brewton house in Charleston, near by, in 1765—1769, the same general scheme was repeated with far greater elegance: the width 1 South Carolina Gazette, December 22, 1758, quoted by H. A. M. Smith in S. C. Historical Magazine,vol. 20 (1919), p. 93. 99 AMERICAN DOMESTIC ARCHITECTURE is no longer sprawling, th
Domestic architecture of the American colonies and of the early republic . the John Vassall (Longfellow) house. A two-storied portico of superposed orders, four columns in width, won forDrayton Hall in 1758 the appellation of a Here the upper columnsstand on pedestals. In the Miles Brewton house in Charleston, near by, in 1765—1769, the same general scheme was repeated with far greater elegance: the width 1 South Carolina Gazette, December 22, 1758, quoted by H. A. M. Smith in S. C. Historical Magazine,vol. 20 (1919), p. 93. 99 AMERICAN DOMESTIC ARCHITECTURE is no longer sprawling, the pedestals are omitted. In Jeffersons design for Mon-ticello (figure 72), 1771, finally, the scheme—a favorite one with Palladio (figure73)—was reproduced with strict Palladian accuracy both in proportions and in de-tail. The upper order seems never actually to have come to Not dis-similar was the portico of Lansdowne, built 1773-1777, and destroyed about colossal portico, of columns rising through the lull height of the build- s 4> f£5. fc ojyrigktt iqiO, by Clara Aniory Coolidge Figure 72. Design for Monticello. Thomas Jefferson. 1771From the original drawing in the Coolidge collection ing, is popularly thought of as specially characteristic of the Colonial house, but itwill be found that only a single example can be proved to be prior to the Revolu-tion. In many instances such a portico attached to a pre-Revolutionary house isa later addition. Thus the one at Whitehall has no relation to the mouldings ofthe main cornice of the house, which it intersects awkwardly; the one at the Wood-lands, Philadelphia, would seem to date from the remodelling of 1788. Mrs. MaryNewton Stannard, who corrects the popular notion, cites Mount Vernon, Sabine 1 Kimball, Thomas Jefferson, Architect (1916), p. 29. 2 View and discussion in T. Westcott, The Historic Mansions of Philadelphia (1877), p. 334. IOO THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY Hall, and Nomini Hall as among the t
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