Domestic architecture of the American colonies and of the early republic . AMERICAN DOMESTIC ARCHITECTURE The most significant difference within the bounds of the opening lay in themethod of giving light to the hall at this point. In early houses a rectangulartransom here was not uncommon: witness Graeme Park, Stenton, Rosewell, West-over, the Ayrault house at Newport, and the Daniel Pastorius house at German-town, all between 1721 and 1748. A number of doorways about 1760 have lightsin the upper panels of the doors themselves: those of the Williams house, Deerfield,as remodelled in 1756, the
Domestic architecture of the American colonies and of the early republic . AMERICAN DOMESTIC ARCHITECTURE The most significant difference within the bounds of the opening lay in themethod of giving light to the hall at this point. In early houses a rectangulartransom here was not uncommon: witness Graeme Park, Stenton, Rosewell, West-over, the Ayrault house at Newport, and the Daniel Pastorius house at German-town, all between 1721 and 1748. A number of doorways about 1760 have lightsin the upper panels of the doors themselves: those of the Williams house, Deerfield,as remodelled in 1756, the Ebenezer Grant house, East Windsor, the John Yassall. Figure 74. Roger Morris (Jumel) house, New York City. 1765 and Apthorp houses in Cambridge. Meanwhile, in the arched door heads cominginto use after 1757, semicircular transoms or fanlights now first appeared, super-seding both the older forms. The elliptical arch of the Miles Brewton house alsohas its fanlight. No instance of side-lights, included within the main door opening,exists before the Revolution, although narrow windows at either side are com-bined with the door in an inclusive architectural motive in the Schuyler and Chasehouses, from the late sixties, and others. Wooden bars were the rule in transomsprior to the War of Independence. The enframement of doorways was at first merely an architrave, as in Tucka-hoe, the Mulberry, Graeme Park, and Stenton (figure 75), all by 1728, and 102 THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY examples of this can be found in masonry houses down to the time of Whitby,1754. Certain pretentious houses of this period had rusticated blocks instead ofan architrave,
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