Domestic architecture of the American colonies and of the early republic . e a base-ment. A basement with open arcades be-low an order was the motive of Gabrielsfamous palaces of the Place de la Con-corde, which Bulfinch had seen, and whichinfluenced his designs for public similar treatment with blank arcadesand an engaged order had been current inEngland since Lord Burlingtons designfor General Wades house; the Adams hadmade it specially their own by such worksas the house for Sir Watkin Wynn. Allthese had semicircular arches with singlesquare-headed windows beneath. Soane running
Domestic architecture of the American colonies and of the early republic . e a base-ment. A basement with open arcades be-low an order was the motive of Gabrielsfamous palaces of the Place de la Con-corde, which Bulfinch had seen, and whichinfluenced his designs for public similar treatment with blank arcadesand an engaged order had been current inEngland since Lord Burlingtons designfor General Wades house; the Adams hadmade it specially their own by such worksas the house for Sir Watkin Wynn. Allthese had semicircular arches with singlesquare-headed windows beneath. Soane running through the two upper lost no time in adopting thenew arrangement, in the Lyman house(figure 162) and in the remodelling ofthe Assembly House, both from 1793,but in both the order embraces but asingle story. Later imitations of bothschemes exist in the Pierce house inPortsmouth, in houses at Salem, Port-land, and New Haven, but after 1800the motive was no longer used by theleaders in Boston, any more than in theSouth. The first use of blind arcades was. Figure 164. Design for a city houseCharles Bulfinch, after 1800 From the original drawing in the possession ofthe Massachusetts Institute of Technology 104 HOUSES OF THE EARLY REPUBLIC employed segmental arches, with grouped and mullioned windows. These appearbelow the order in Bulfinchs first house, the one for Joseph Barrel] (figure 184).His design for the Hasket Derby mansion (figure 160), in 1795, followed the Pro-vosts House in Dublin—a copy of General Wades—Maltons view of which, pub-lished the same year, formed part of Bulfinchs library. He likewise vised base-ment arcades, sometimes circular, sometimes segmental, under the pilasters of hisown house, the Hersey Derby house, the Otis house on Mount Vernon Street (fig-ure 161), and the houses opposite Franklin Crescent. In his houses at the footof Park Street (figure 151), in 1804, the basement story has the segmental arches,
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