Domestic architecture of the American colonies and of the early republic . ere have yet been identified. It is questionable, also, whether any of thehouses there with curved projections were prior to 1792. Cf. Smith, Dwelling Houses of Charleston, ch. VI. 3 The Genesis of the White House, Century Magazine, vol. 95 (1918), pp. 524-528. 4 E. S. Bulfinch, Life and Letters of Charles Bulfinch (1896), pp. 75-76.; IK pp. 42, 51. 164 HOUSES OF THE EARLY REPUBLIC most commonly of oval or circular form. Under Bulfinchs leadership it becameespecially frequent among fine houses in Boston and New England.
Domestic architecture of the American colonies and of the early republic . ere have yet been identified. It is questionable, also, whether any of thehouses there with curved projections were prior to 1792. Cf. Smith, Dwelling Houses of Charleston, ch. VI. 3 The Genesis of the White House, Century Magazine, vol. 95 (1918), pp. 524-528. 4 E. S. Bulfinch, Life and Letters of Charles Bulfinch (1896), pp. 75-76.; IK pp. 42, 51. 164 HOUSES OF THE EARLY REPUBLIC most commonly of oval or circular form. Under Bulfinchs leadership it becameespecially frequent among fine houses in Boston and New England. He himselfseems to have been the designer of at least five such houses: those of GeneralHenry Knox in Thomaston, Maine, 1793, of Perez Morton and James Swan inRoxbury and Dorchester, ascribed to 1796 and thereabouts,1 of Jonathan Masonin Boston, and of Harrison Gray Otis in Watertown, 1809. All of these had theprojecting saloon in the centre of the garden front. The Knox house is almost aduplicate in plan of the Barrell house, but has the elliptical bay enclosed in the. Figure 124. Gore house, Waltham, Massachusetts. Garden front. Between 1799 and 1S04 Courtesy of Miss N. D. Tupper second story as well as in the first. In the Mason house (figure 121) it risesthrough all three. The Morton (Taylor) house has an octagonal projecting room,the ellipse, truncated in this case so that it does not project, being reserved for theup-stairs drawing-room. The Swan house (figures 122, 123, and 146) is uniqueamong the executed houses in having a circular room as the projecting feature,its wall rising two stories on the exterior, above a low surrounding colonnadewhich crosses the front. In this house the saloon is in the centre of the entrancefront, with the entrances themselves pushed to either side. The Gore house inWaltham (figure 124), as rebuilt between 1799 and 1804, which may also be byBulfinch, not only has a projecting elliptical saloon, but has a room opposite it, on 1 F. S. Drake,
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