Domestic architecture of the American colonies and of the early republic . employed it instudies and designs,2 although in neither case does it seem to have come to execu-tion. The Hotel de Salm, with its circular salon, which he so greatly admired,gave him one idea for the Presidents house in Elliptical saloonsoccur among the designs of John McComb, of New York, the most interesting(figure 125)4 being datable by the paper employed as about 1798-1800. It has theentrance hall and stairs at one end of the front, the saloon projecting almost its 1 Kimball, Thomas Jefferson, Architect
Domestic architecture of the American colonies and of the early republic . employed it instudies and designs,2 although in neither case does it seem to have come to execu-tion. The Hotel de Salm, with its circular salon, which he so greatly admired,gave him one idea for the Presidents house in Elliptical saloonsoccur among the designs of John McComb, of New York, the most interesting(figure 125)4 being datable by the paper employed as about 1798-1800. It has theentrance hall and stairs at one end of the front, the saloon projecting almost its 1 Kimball, Thomas Jefferson, Architect, fig. 118. 2 lb., figs. 120 (1793 ?), 181 (1803). 3 lb., fig. 131. 4 McComb collection, New York Historical Society, no. 109. 167 AMERICAN DOMESTIC ARCHITECTURE full depth on the garden side, surrounded by a veranda with small columns muchlike that of the Swan house. In Charleston the Nathaniel Russell house, com-pleted before 1811, has an oval drawing-room, projecting endwise with a polygonalexterior, in the centre of the garden facade (figure 126). For Tudor Place in. Figure 128. Robert Morris house, Chestnut Street, Philadelphia. Pierre Charles LEnfant 1793 to 1801 From the engraving by William Birch, 1800 Georgetown Thornton made a series of studies with oval saloons on axis whichare exceptional for rich combination of elements of varied In other houses where the saloon had not a full elliptical or circular form, ithad none the less a semicircular or segmental end forming a projecting bay. Thiswas common in Soanes Plans (1788). One of Jeffersons ideal studies shows 1 The most ambitious is published by G. Brown, Architectural Record, vol. 6 (1896), p. 64. Others are amongthe Thornton papers in the Library of Congress, Manuscripts Division. 168 HOUSES OF THE EARLY REPUBLIC the His disciple, Robert Mills, used it in the Wickham (Valentine) housein Richmond, 1812. In Boston it was employed by Alexander Parris in the househe designed for David Sears in 1816 (figu
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