Domestic architecture of the American colonies and of the early republic . r room surrounded by columns and surmounted by a saucer dome,it was adopted by James Paine in his unexecuted design for the garden facade ofKedieston (1761), and by Robert Adam in the River House at Sion. In this classi-cal form it appeared in France in the Hotel de Thelusson, built 1780, and theHotel de Salm, 1782-1786. The house with the projecting saloon had likewise owed its introduction inAmerica to Jefferson, who, as we have seen, adopted an octagonal projection in 162 HOUSES OF THE EARLY REPUBLIC building Montice
Domestic architecture of the American colonies and of the early republic . r room surrounded by columns and surmounted by a saucer dome,it was adopted by James Paine in his unexecuted design for the garden facade ofKedieston (1761), and by Robert Adam in the River House at Sion. In this classi-cal form it appeared in France in the Hotel de Thelusson, built 1780, and theHotel de Salm, 1782-1786. The house with the projecting saloon had likewise owed its introduction inAmerica to Jefferson, who, as we have seen, adopted an octagonal projection in 162 HOUSES OF THE EARLY REPUBLIC building Monticello (figure 52) just before the Revolution. It was taken up inde-pendently by others, who were the first to employ the curved projection. This ap-pears in both the lateral facades of the Woodlands, as remodelled in 1788: a housewhich, although somewhat limited in the central part by existing walls, is remark-able in its freedom and novelty of composition in plan, both as regards convenienceand privacy, and as regards variety of spatial effects (figures 109 and 196). The. Figure 123. Swan house, DorchesterCourtesy of Ogden Codman entrance is to a circular vestibule surrounded by columns, with niches on the diag-onals. To the left, beyond the stairs, and to the right, are the great drawing-roomand the dining-room, one elliptical, the other with semicircular ends, both juttingout boldly on the exterior. Beyond the vestibule is the saloon, likewise with semi-circular ends. It does not itself extend beyond the plane of the building, but hasa great projecting portico in the centre of the river front. A grand salone on the axis, of circular form, was first employed by JohnMcComb in a drawing which seems to belong to the series of studies he made forthe Government House in New York in 1789 (figure 117). It is the most elaborate 163 AMERICAN DOMESTIC ARCHITECTURE of the group, fully commensurate with the purpose of the house as a residence ofthe President. Identity in many elements leav
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