Domestic architecture of the American colonies and of the early republic . right, 1QI2, iy William K. Simple Figure 202. The saloon, Monticello. Thomas Jefferson, 1771 to 1809 The form of interior cornices varied much at any given time with the meansof the owner and the relative importance of the room, but an evolution may betraced in several respects. Cornices of academic proportions and profile persistedtor some time in fine houses, and may even be found in rooms of the Barrell house 242 HOUSES OF THE EARLY REPUBLIC in 1792, where Adam forms were first introduced into New England (figure 201
Domestic architecture of the American colonies and of the early republic . right, 1QI2, iy William K. Simple Figure 202. The saloon, Monticello. Thomas Jefferson, 1771 to 1809 The form of interior cornices varied much at any given time with the meansof the owner and the relative importance of the room, but an evolution may betraced in several respects. Cornices of academic proportions and profile persistedtor some time in fine houses, and may even be found in rooms of the Barrell house 242 HOUSES OF THE EARLY REPUBLIC in 1792, where Adam forms were first introduced into New England (figure 201).Meanwhile lighter cornices, often with a frieze—both usually with enrichment incomposition, if they were not entirely of stucco—came in favor. Such cornicesand friezes had appeared just before the Revolution at Kenmore and Mount Ver-non; they now were adopted at Solitude (figure 204), 1784, in the Otis house of1795 and other works of Bulfinch such as the Hersey Derby house, in the Octagon(figures 193 and 207), the Lyman house (figure 200), and others down to From a photograph iy K. IK Holsinger Figure 203. Cornice in the North Bow, Monticello. Thomas Jefferson, about 1805 The examples enumerated have simple classic profiles, often with dentils, plain orfanciful, and with relatively slight projection. About 1800 shallow, flat blocks,mutules or modillions began to be introduced, the projection of the cornice tendedto be increased, and the under side or planceer ornamented. An early corniceof this sort is in the hall at LTpsala, 1798, others are at Homewood, in the JohnGardner house at Salem, 1805, and the Radcliffe house in Charleston, finished1806. Benjamin, in his Country Builders Assistant (1797), had shown no roomcornices with modillions, but in The American Builders Companion, published1806, in which he had the collaboration of the stucco worker, Daniel Raynerd,
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