Domestic architecture of the American colonies and of the early republic . AMERICAN DOMESTIC ARCHITECTURE Tuckahoe (figure 83), Westover (figure 102), the Hancock house, and many laterhouses, rising sometimes from the floor, sometimes from the dado. In the hall atStratford (figure 84) they are used more ambitiously, completely surrounding theroom at intervals measurably regular in effect, though not perfectly equal. A simi-lar treatment, with Ionic pilasters, is found in the drawing-room from Marmion(figure 85), now in the Metropolitan Museum, and was apparently used likewise. From a photograp
Domestic architecture of the American colonies and of the early republic . AMERICAN DOMESTIC ARCHITECTURE Tuckahoe (figure 83), Westover (figure 102), the Hancock house, and many laterhouses, rising sometimes from the floor, sometimes from the dado. In the hall atStratford (figure 84) they are used more ambitiously, completely surrounding theroom at intervals measurably regular in effect, though not perfectly equal. A simi-lar treatment, with Ionic pilasters, is found in the drawing-room from Marmion(figure 85), now in the Metropolitan Museum, and was apparently used likewise. From a photograph by H. P. Figure 87. Northwest parlor at Carters Grove. 1751 in the Clark or Frankland house in Boston built by William Clark, who died These rooms remained unique, being rivalled in consistent order treat-ment perhaps only by the entrance hall at Carters Grove, where uniform pilastersflank the doorways and the central arch. It was relatively rare elsewhere forpilasters to stand under a continuous entablature surrounding the room, as in thesehouses. Usually, even at a late period, they were employed, if at all, isolated andof different scales, as the individual elaboration of hall arches, doorways, and chim-neypieces might suggest. In the Dalton house, Newburyport, and the Philipse 1 S. A. Drake, Old Landmarks of Boston (1873), p. 165. Il8 THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY manor-hall at Yonkers, both of uncertain date, engaged columns, bolder in relief,replaced the pilasters. Free-standing columns on the interior occur during Colo-nial times only in two late houses of e
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