Domestic architecture of the American colonies and of the early republic . a block, plain or panelled, or Figure q6. The stairs at Graeme Park ? 1 in 11 u a & v with a console-like scroll, or with both. 1721 to 1722 All these varieties were also common inEngland. Plain block ends are generally early, as in the McPhedris house andStenton; whereas panelled blocks may occur at any later time: 1761 in the TimothyOrne house, Salem. Scroll ends begin equally early, at Tuckahoe, Rosewell, andWestover. In the Hancock house, where the stairs (figure 100) established a newmodel of richness in so many re
Domestic architecture of the American colonies and of the early republic . a block, plain or panelled, or Figure q6. The stairs at Graeme Park ? 1 in 11 u a & v with a console-like scroll, or with both. 1721 to 1722 All these varieties were also common inEngland. Plain block ends are generally early, as in the McPhedris house andStenton; whereas panelled blocks may occur at any later time: 1761 in the TimothyOrne house, Salem. Scroll ends begin equally early, at Tuckahoe, Rosewell, andWestover. In the Hancock house, where the stairs (figure 100) established a newmodel of richness in so many respects, there were blocks and scrolls as well, andthis was imitated in the Jeremiah Lee and other houses. The earliest examples ofthe scroll ends, at Tuckahoe (figure 97) and Rosewell, are carved somewhat in themanner of Gibbons, with foliage and flowers rather naturalistically treated, and thisrecurs at Carters Grove in the middle of the century. At Westover there is a reallyacademic, modillion-like scroll (figure 81), but this was unusual. The Hancock house 128. 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
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