Domestic architecture of the American colonies and of the early republic . he Bingham house and the Woodlands, and, with or with-out side-lights, they remained the most common until about 1800 (figure 179).Meanwhile in New England elliptical fanlights had come into vogue. The innova-tion in America seems to have been due to Bulfinch, who went out of his way touse the elliptical form over the door in his design for the Hasket Derby house(figure 160). Mclntire had used it in 1793 in his Nathan Read house, designedlargely under Bulfinchs inspiration. Elliptical or segmental fanlights remained 217
Domestic architecture of the American colonies and of the early republic . he Bingham house and the Woodlands, and, with or with-out side-lights, they remained the most common until about 1800 (figure 179).Meanwhile in New England elliptical fanlights had come into vogue. The innova-tion in America seems to have been due to Bulfinch, who went out of his way touse the elliptical form over the door in his design for the Hasket Derby house(figure 160). Mclntire had used it in 1793 in his Nathan Read house, designedlargely under Bulfinchs inspiration. Elliptical or segmental fanlights remained 217 AMERICAN DOMESTIC ARCHITECTURE universal in New England until 1820. With but a single exception—that of theMorton house—they all had the side-lights. Elsewhere and later, square-headeddoorways with side-lights, and usually a transom, made their appearance: firstperhaps in McCombs house for Alexander Hamilton, The Grange, in 1801. TheGreek revival made this the accepted form (figure 180). In earlier triple doorways there were either plain mullions and transoms or at. Figure 178. Gore house, Waltham. Entrance front. Between 1799 and 1804 Courtesy of Miss N. D. Tupper most pilasters on the mullions, as in Bulfinchs design for the Hasket Derby man-sion. In the Salem houses of 1818 and following years, however, slender engagedcolumns and entablatures of great richness were adopted (figures 176 and 191), andheavier columns often repeated the scheme during the Greek revival. The enframement of the door, like its shape and filling, underwent modifica-tion. The favorite late Colonial form, with a pediment into which a curved tran-som broke up, was unusual after 1793, although in a few doorways, such as thatof Montpellier, remodelled in that year, a pediment was made thus to span one ofthe new elliptical fanlights (figure 186). Even in other relationships a pediment 2l8 HOUSES OF THE EARLY REPUBLIC on the door-casing soon became rare. Instead, there was generally a full horizon-tal
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