Domestic architecture of the American colonies and of the early republic . Figure 167. Burd house, Philadelphia. Benjamin Henry Latrobe 1800 to 1801 From an old photograph at the Ridgway Library Bulfinch came back to it in the Harrison Gray Otis house on Beacon Street, Bos-ton, in 1807. A modification after 1800 was the use of three uniform units, each initself multiple, as in the Larkin house and others. Such a uniform treatment didnot necessarily require that the front should have an odd number of bays, espe- 207 AMERICAN DOMESTIC ARCHITECTURE cially if the entrance was elsewhere. Street fro
Domestic architecture of the American colonies and of the early republic . Figure 167. Burd house, Philadelphia. Benjamin Henry Latrobe 1800 to 1801 From an old photograph at the Ridgway Library Bulfinch came back to it in the Harrison Gray Otis house on Beacon Street, Bos-ton, in 1807. A modification after 1800 was the use of three uniform units, each initself multiple, as in the Larkin house and others. Such a uniform treatment didnot necessarily require that the front should have an odd number of bays, espe- 207 AMERICAN DOMESTIC ARCHITECTURE cially if the entrance was elsewhere. Street fronts two or four bays wide, with thedoor on the side of the building, were common in New England after 1805. Oneis figured in Benjamins American Builders Companion. Bulfinch had alreadyused fronts of four bays, even with the door in one of them; and this not only indouble or multiple houses where balance could be secured by reversing adjacentfronts, but in the single house for Hersey Derby. While special window motives were used in the centre of facades during Colo-. Figure 168. Larkin house, Portsmouth. Finished 1817 nial times, it was ordinarily in a pavilion, projecting or marked by pilasters. Afterthe Revolution it became common to use them in an unbroken front, repeating thewider and more important opening of the door in the centre of the lower first instance was the Bingham house in Philadelphia (figure 170), before 1788,modelled on Manchester House in London (figure 171) and having a Palladianwindow in the second story, a semicircular window in the third. An early manu-script design by Bulfinch (figure 172) shows a similar treatment which was em-bodied in the Harrison Gray Otis house on Cambridge Street in 1795, and in ahouse at the corner of Summer and Arch Streets, as well as in the Pickman (Shreve- 208 HOUSES OF THE EARLY REPUBLIC Little) house, Salem, in 1819. An analogous Southern example, later, is the Russellhouse in Charleston. Examples of such a treatme
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