Domestic architecture of the American colonies and of the early republic . ting in its present form from about The most pretentious houses, as time went on, sought distinction rather bytreatment with elements primarily formal in their very nature—pavilions, pilas-ters, and porticos. The first academic house in the colonies to have a projecting central pavilion,was Rosewell (figure 65), before 1730, antedating any other by a score of years. At 1 See letter of Lund Washington quoted by P. Wilstach, Mount Vernon (1916), p. 141. 93 AMERICAN DOMESTIC ARCHITECTURE Rosewell the pavilions, fron
Domestic architecture of the American colonies and of the early republic . ting in its present form from about The most pretentious houses, as time went on, sought distinction rather bytreatment with elements primarily formal in their very nature—pavilions, pilas-ters, and porticos. The first academic house in the colonies to have a projecting central pavilion,was Rosewell (figure 65), before 1730, antedating any other by a score of years. At 1 See letter of Lund Washington quoted by P. Wilstach, Mount Vernon (1916), p. 141. 93 AMERICAN DOMESTIC ARCHITECTURE Rosewell the pavilions, front and rear, are masses deep enough to affect the spaces ofthe interior, but a glance at the plan reveals that they were adopted for plastic exterioreffect. This is obviously the case with the shallow central pavilions which appearedfrequently after 1750: for instance, in the Pickman, John Vassall (figure 68), andApthorp houses in Massachusetts; in Mount Pleasant and Cliveden at Philadelphia;in the Chase house at Annapolis; in Mount Airy and Tryons Palace in the From a photograph by H. P. Cool: Figure 65. Rosewell, Gloucester County, Virginia. Before 1730 Greater academic splendor was obtained by the adornment of walls and pa-vilions by an order. But two instances occur of an order embracing two storiesabove a story treated as a high architectural basement: the Matthew Cozzens, orDudley house near Newport, built in the fifties or early sixties,1 and Tryons Pal-ace,2 1767-1770. The favorite scheme was the colossal order rising from groundor pedestal to the main cornice. This first appeared in the Pinckney house in Col-leton Square, Charleston (figure 66), 1746, and in Shirley Place, Roxbury (figure67), built following that year. In Shirley Place, in the west facade of the Royallhouse, before 1750, in the John Vassall and Apthorp houses in Cambridge, 1758 1 Petersons History of Rhode Island (1853), p. 149, and notes of Ogden Codman. 2 J. Lossing, Field Book of the Revolu
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