Domestic architecture of the American colonies and of the early republic . l RobertBrewtons house in Charleston, built before 1733, has a brick cornice. In a fewVirginia buildings of the first half of the century classic doorways were executedin brick: Stratford, 1725-1730; Christ Church, Lancaster County, 1732; the Nelsonhouse, Yorktown; Carters Grove, 1751. 1Mechanick Exercises . . the Art of Bricklayers-Work, p. 28. 67 AMERICAN DOMESTIC ARCHITECTURE Stucco was occasionally used from an early date, especially in Charleston andnear Philadelphia, as a covering for both brick and rubble. Increa
Domestic architecture of the American colonies and of the early republic . l RobertBrewtons house in Charleston, built before 1733, has a brick cornice. In a fewVirginia buildings of the first half of the century classic doorways were executedin brick: Stratford, 1725-1730; Christ Church, Lancaster County, 1732; the Nelsonhouse, Yorktown; Carters Grove, 1751. 1Mechanick Exercises . . the Art of Bricklayers-Work, p. 28. 67 AMERICAN DOMESTIC ARCHITECTURE Stucco was occasionally used from an early date, especially in Charleston andnear Philadelphia, as a covering for both brick and rubble. Increased warmthand weatherproofness seem to have been the principal reasons for its employmentrather than a desire to imitate stone. Even at Mount Pleasant (figure 39), after1761, where joints are ruled to resemble ashlar, the brick is revealed in artistic objection to brickwork arises until after the Revolution. Although the general tendency, even in the North, was toward the more per-manent materials, the desire for richer academic detail worked in the opposite. From a photograph by H. P. Cook Figure 42. Tuckahoe direction. Cornices, window and door enframements, in masonry houses, with thefew exceptions noted, were ordinarily of wood, as was also the case in minor housesin England. Wood might be used for the whole fronts, to which the openings werechiefly confined, when the gable-ends of the house were of brick: in the Usher(Royall) house before 1700; in Tuckahoe; in the Dummer house, Byfield, Massa-chusetts. Later, the same forces even led to the casing of brick walls with wood,in which elaborate door and window treatments could be executed, as was donewith the east facade of the Royall house between 1733 and 1737, or with thePickman house on Washington Street in Salem, built of brick in 1764 and facedwith wood about 1790. 68 THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY In the matter of accommodations the houses of the new century reflected thegreater accumulation of wealth and higher stand
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