Domestic architecture of the American colonies and of the early republic . are framedin rusticated quoins, notably those of the wings of the Lyman house, after 1793,but rustication was on the way to abandonment. Post-Colonial buildings such asthe Jerathmeel Peirce house in Salem and the Langdon house in Portsmouth, Adambuildings like the Hasket and Hersey Derby houses in Salem, Oak Hill in Danvers,the Morton and Crafts houses in Roxbury, all have a frieze and cornice over theprincipal windows. The later of these, by Bulfinch and his followers, may bereadily distinguished from Colonial work by
Domestic architecture of the American colonies and of the early republic . are framedin rusticated quoins, notably those of the wings of the Lyman house, after 1793,but rustication was on the way to abandonment. Post-Colonial buildings such asthe Jerathmeel Peirce house in Salem and the Langdon house in Portsmouth, Adambuildings like the Hasket and Hersey Derby houses in Salem, Oak Hill in Danvers,the Morton and Crafts houses in Roxbury, all have a frieze and cornice over theprincipal windows. The later of these, by Bulfinch and his followers, may bereadily distinguished from Colonial work by their delicate proportions. The friezes 215 AMERICAN DOMESTIC ARCHITECTURE are commonly terminated by small end blocks and may be enriched by fluting orcarving. The Colonial types of doorways rapidly vanished from pretentious single rectangular opening, either with or without a rectangular transom, isscarcely to be found after 1790, until the adoption of the temple scheme broughtit back in the University of Virginia. Glass panels in the doors likewise disap-. Figure 176. Pickering Dodge (Shreve) house, Salem. 1822 to 1823 peared. The pediment, which had been so universal a feature in the enframementof later Colonial doorways, scarcely persisted longer except in local vernacularwork. The baroque scroll pediment had been disused on exteriors before theRevolution. The door with an arched transom persisted as a means of illuminating the hall,for which was introduced also a new device, the side-light. In the form and group-ing of these features, largely under the influence of the Adams, lay the varietyand evolution of the doorway after 1788. In that year the first side-lights wereprovided in the doorway of the Bingham house in Philadelphia (figure 170). Bul-finch used side-lights in some form customarily from 1792; McComb adopted them HOUSES OF THE EARLY REPUBLIC in New York before 1800, and they were employed in Charleston from the sameperiod. Both in the fanlights and i
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