Domestic architecture of the American colonies and of the early republic . Copyright by J. B. Lipfincclt Co. Figure 126. Plan of the Russell houseCharleston. Finished 1811 From a drawing by Albert Simmons in Smiths Dwelling Houses of Charleston. Figure 127. David Sears house, Boston1816. Alexander Parris, Architect From a measured drawing by Ogden Codman whose house in Paris had had an oval salon to the garden,1 twice 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
Domestic architecture of the American colonies and of the early republic . Copyright by J. B. Lipfincclt Co. Figure 126. Plan of the Russell houseCharleston. Finished 1811 From a drawing by Albert Simmons in Smiths Dwelling Houses of Charleston. Figure 127. David Sears house, Boston1816. Alexander Parris, Architect From a measured drawing by Ogden Codman whose house in Paris had had an oval salon to the garden,1 twice 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 R
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