Domestic architecture of the American colonies and of the early republic . house, the John Brown house in Providence, the George Read II house in New-castle have them, in quite the old form, with pilasters, entablatures over the sidebays, and an archivolt over the central arch. Later examples, in the wings ofHomewood and in the Nathaniel Silsbee house on Salem Common (figure 173),built in 1818, have no enframing order beyond the jambs, and merely a band ofvoussoirs bent over all three divisions. 210 HOUSES OF THE EARLY REPUBLIC More commonly in republican days the Palladian window was framed b
Domestic architecture of the American colonies and of the early republic . house, the John Brown house in Providence, the George Read II house in New-castle have them, in quite the old form, with pilasters, entablatures over the sidebays, and an archivolt over the central arch. Later examples, in the wings ofHomewood and in the Nathaniel Silsbee house on Salem Common (figure 173),built in 1818, have no enframing order beyond the jambs, and merely a band ofvoussoirs bent over all three divisions. 210 HOUSES OF THE EARLY REPUBLIC More commonly in republican days the Palladian window was framed by ashallow bearing arch. This motive, a favorite one with the Adams, had been usedonce, we may recall, in the colonies just before the war—in the Chase house atAnnapolis. It was now adopted when the Woodlands was remodelled (figure 174),and successively in the Presidents house at Philadelphia and in Bulfinchs Has-ket Derby design. All these, before 1800, still had pilasters and entablature undera semicircular arch. Later examples are modified in two ways. The order is. Figure 171. Manchester House, LondonFrom an old view omitted in favor of plain mullions and bands, still keeping the large semicirculararch above. This is the scheme in Latrobes Burd house (1801), in the Larkinhouse (1816), and the Fairfax house at Alexandria. Or the bearing arch is madeelliptical, coming dowm on the head of the archivolt below, as in the John Andrew(Safford) and Pickering Dodge houses in Salem, 1819 and 1822 (figure 176), whichkeep the order, but with slender engaged columns. Triple windows all square-headed, though with the side-lights narrow, as inthe Palladian scheme, came into use after 1790, and increasingly after 1810. 211 AMERICAN DOMESTIC ARCHITECTURE Totally unknown before the Revolution, they appeared in 1788 in Soanes Plans,and during following years in many derivative publications. Their first use inAmerica, as we have seen, was in the bow of Bulfinchs Barrell house, under itssegme
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