Domestic architecture of the American colonies and of the early republic . the building, as they had done in Shirley Place, theRoyall house, and many other Colonial houses, they occur in Mclntires earlywork, at the corners of the Jerathmeel Peirce (Nichols) house (figure 154) and of 201 Figure 161. Harrison Gray Otis house, 85 Mount Vernon Street, Boston. Charles Bulfinch 1800 to 1801 Courtesy of Ogden Codman HOUSES OF THE EARLY REPUBLIC the Pickman house on Washington Street as remodelled for Elias Hasket Derbyabout 1790. The Langdon house in Portsmouth, built before 1782, likewise hascorner
Domestic architecture of the American colonies and of the early republic . the building, as they had done in Shirley Place, theRoyall house, and many other Colonial houses, they occur in Mclntires earlywork, at the corners of the Jerathmeel Peirce (Nichols) house (figure 154) and of 201 Figure 161. Harrison Gray Otis house, 85 Mount Vernon Street, Boston. Charles Bulfinch 1800 to 1801 Courtesy of Ogden Codman HOUSES OF THE EARLY REPUBLIC the Pickman house on Washington Street as remodelled for Elias Hasket Derbyabout 1790. The Langdon house in Portsmouth, built before 1782, likewise hascorner pilasters. The Woodlands (figure 155), 1788, and the Morton house (figure156), 1796, have each a central motive of tall pilasters on the entrance front, andthe Crafts house (figure 157) follows the Morton design with the substitution ofclose-coupled columns. The Mason, Prescott, and Everett houses in Boston hadvery slender pilasters flanking their curved projecting bays. Pilasters above anarchitectural basement, as in two exceptional instances before the Revolution, are. Figure 162. Lyman house, Waltham, Massachusetts. Samuel Mclntire, after 1793 Courtesy of Ogden Codman characteristic of the last decade of the century, especially of the style of Bulfinchand his followers. The Presidents house in Philadelphia (figure 158) and the riverfront of the White House in Washington, each begun in 1792, both have engaged columns of the central pavilion on its north front (figure 159) likewiseoriginally rose above a high basement. For Franklin Crescent (figure 150) Bul-finch adopted an engaged order, columns for the central pavilion, pilasters for theend pavilions and the houses opposite; and he repeated the motive with variedlateral groupings in his designs for the Knox house, the Hasket Derby (figure 160)and Hersey Derby houses, his own house, and the Harrison Gray Otis house onMount Vernon Street (figure 161), the last in 1800. All these have the pilasters 203 AMERICAN DOMESTI
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