Domestic architecture of the American colonies and of the early republic . THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY initiated the use of a scroll block sawn to fantastic profile, in which a beaklike ele-ment predominates, and this was henceforth the commonest form, occurring atWhitby, Woodford, Mount Pleasant, Cliveden (figure 98), and in the John Vassalland Roger Morris houses. In the Miles Brewton house and the Jeremiah Lee house(figure 99), both in the later sixties, rocaille scrolls appear. Ordinarily the soffit of. From a photograph by H. P. Cook Figure 97. The stairs at Tuckahoe. Before 1730 the stairs wa
Domestic architecture of the American colonies and of the early republic . THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY initiated the use of a scroll block sawn to fantastic profile, in which a beaklike ele-ment predominates, and this was henceforth the commonest form, occurring atWhitby, Woodford, Mount Pleasant, Cliveden (figure 98), and in the John Vassalland Roger Morris houses. In the Miles Brewton house and the Jeremiah Lee house(figure 99), both in the later sixties, rocaille scrolls appear. Ordinarily the soffit of. From a photograph by H. P. Cook Figure 97. The stairs at Tuckahoe. Before 1730 the stairs was unaffected by the form of the stair ends, but occasionally their pro-file was carried the full width of the stair. The Hancock house is the first other dated examples are late: the Orne house, 1761, for the block ends; theChase house, 1769-1771, for the scroll ends. The balusters of the eighteenth century were longer and more slender thanthose of the seventeenth, and were more closely spaced, generally three to a turned part of all three began at the same height, so that there were threetypes with turning of unequal length. Sometimes the turning was of the ordi-nary sort, at right angles to the axis of the baluster, but in many instances the new 129 AMERICAN DOMESTIC ARCHITECTURE device of spiral or swash turning was employed. Full directions for this are given byMoxon in his Mechanick Exercises. . Applied to the Art of Turning (1694).1It was used in the balusters of
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