Domestic architecture of the American colonies and of the early republic . Figure 130. Van Ness house, Washington. Front elevation. Benjamin Henry Latrobe 1813 to 1819 From a measured drawing by Ogden Codman similar features. Sometimes in a pair of symmetrical houses a bay was placed ateither end of the front, as in the house at 55 Beacon Street, Boston, long occupiedby the historian Prescott, or the one formerly standing at Summer and ArchStreets, the home of Edward Everett. A special group is formed by the townhouses on corner lots which have a corner entrance in a circular pavilion. Themost

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Domestic architecture of the American colonies and of the early republic . Figure 130. Van Ness house, Washington. Front elevation. Benjamin Henry Latrobe 1813 to 1819 From a measured drawing by Ogden Codman similar features. Sometimes in a pair of symmetrical houses a bay was placed ateither end of the front, as in the house at 55 Beacon Street, Boston, long occupiedby the historian Prescott, or the one formerly standing at Summer and ArchStreets, the home of Edward Everett. A special group is formed by the townhouses on corner lots which have a corner entrance in a circular pavilion. Themost noted of these is the so-called Octagon House in Washington (figure 129),designed by Thornton for John Tayloe, and built in 1798-1800. As in the case ofTudor Place, Thornton made an elaborate series of preliminary studies. The planselected for execution has a circular vestibule on the corner, with the stair hall 170 a z.

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