Domestic architecture of the American colonies and of the early republic . rs. Columns were attenuated systematically in the work under Adam influence,not sporadically in a few instances, as before the Revolution. The Corinthian pilas-ters in Adams house for Sir Watkin Wynn in London are somewhat over elevendiameters in height, instead of the academic ten. The same proportion is to befound in the Corinthian order of the Barrell house and the Ionic of the was not long before it became almost universal to add one or two diameters, atleast, to the academic proportions, as Asher Benja
Domestic architecture of the American colonies and of the early republic . rs. Columns were attenuated systematically in the work under Adam influence,not sporadically in a few instances, as before the Revolution. The Corinthian pilas-ters in Adams house for Sir Watkin Wynn in London are somewhat over elevendiameters in height, instead of the academic ten. The same proportion is to befound in the Corinthian order of the Barrell house and the Ionic of the was not long before it became almost universal to add one or two diameters, atleast, to the academic proportions, as Asher Benjamin did tacitly in The CountryBuilders Assistant, and expressly—lengthening the shafts two diameters—in the American Builders Companion (1806). In the Gideon Tucker porch in HOUSES OF THE EARLY REPUBLIC Salem (1809) Mclntire made the Corinthian columns as slight as fourteen diame-ters, and in the Pickering Dodge doorway (1822) those on the mullions have theextreme slenderness of seventeen. From this attenuation Jefferson held aloof. The orders in his Virginia houses. Mninl Figure 187. Design for a country villaFrom Lafevers Modern Builders Guide, 1833The prototype of many houses with wings and square antae and in the University were of strict Palladian outlines and proportions, often ofthe heavy Tuscan. Latrobe, first to use the Greek orders, gave the columns of theVan Ness porch (figure 130), after 1813, the full Parthenon ratio of diameter toheight. In some of the most pretentious houses on the model of the Greek temple—Arlington and Andalusia, for instance—the Doric columns were quite of antiquesolidity of proportion, but in many others they were lightened somewhat. This AMERICAN DOMESTIC ARCHITECTURE practice was justified by Asher Benjamin in The Practical House Carpenter . .being . . the Grecian Orders of Architecture . . fashioned according to the Styleand Practice of the Present Day (1830). He writes in the preface that the Doriccolumn was generally made, by the
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