Domestic architecture of the American colonies and of the early republic . eThelusson and the Hotel de Salm were building. On his return he removed theupper story oi Where he had a free hand, as in the design of Edgehill,1798, and Ampthill, 1815, he placed all the rooms on one floor. At Poplar Forest,also, the house shows but one story to the entrance front. Instances could be 1 W. Bentley, Diary, vol. 2 (1907), p. 242. The drawings preserved by the Bostonian Societv show thatone of the five stories was a basement. 2 Kimball, Thomas Jefferson, Architect, p. 57. I90 n n r r—| n Jim
Domestic architecture of the American colonies and of the early republic . eThelusson and the Hotel de Salm were building. On his return he removed theupper story oi Where he had a free hand, as in the design of Edgehill,1798, and Ampthill, 1815, he placed all the rooms on one floor. At Poplar Forest,also, the house shows but one story to the entrance front. Instances could be 1 W. Bentley, Diary, vol. 2 (1907), p. 242. The drawings preserved by the Bostonian Societv show thatone of the five stories was a basement. 2 Kimball, Thomas Jefferson, Architect, p. 57. I90 n n r r—| n Jim- - m~ - «* H 1 fesH PM . 0<M _:. ?*< »«< Wm 1*1 S*< »»< feM KM • i—i • r~i r~~i n n : j$t .0 0 0 !tI ? i n n n;n d d r i n r n r n r r r o o c n n | 1 ^ r n 1 Mi fn © |fi| fiji 1 I fff jfi] fjftV; ,£52^ p r 11 if 5 [ X. i. J 1—? -rwj— -w 1 —* ?£ mi. i *— Figure 151. Houses nos. 1-4 Park Street, Boston. Elevation. Charles Bulfinch 1804 to 1805 From the original drawing in the possession of John Collins Warren. Figure 152. Plan of houses nos. 1-4 Park Street. Charles Bulfinch 1804 to 1805 From the original drawing in the possession of John Collins Warren AMERICAN DOMESTIC ARCHITECTURE multiplied in which the scheme was taken up by others: in the Mason house onAnalostan Island at Washington; in the houses of Sir Edwin Cust and others nearDetroit. In the matter of heights of stories the most significant change was the achiev-ing of freedom to have a variety within a single one, conforming to the uses of dif-ferent rooms. For the private rooms great height was no longer considered desir-able—the conception of intimacy, developed in the period of Louis XV, had aneffect. When Monticello was remodelled, the height of the old rooms was cut inhalf for the new ones by the device of the mezzanine, which Jefferson had alreadyproposed in his rotonda study for the Presidents house. For the main saloons, onthe other hand, greater height
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