Domestic architecture of the American colonies and of the early republic . Mount Airy Mount Vernon Figure 53. Relation of outbuildings to the house THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY by rooms and fronted by colonnades. Unlike those of the other houses, whichrose from the same grade as the house itself, his service wings were reduced to thebasement level to form terraces, above which rose merely decorative outbuildings. Other elements than the rectangle were rarely involved in Colonial plans. Cor-ners were sometimes cut off diagonally for fireplaces or cupboards, as at single instance of a circu
Domestic architecture of the American colonies and of the early republic . Mount Airy Mount Vernon Figure 53. Relation of outbuildings to the house THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY by rooms and fronted by colonnades. Unlike those of the other houses, whichrose from the same grade as the house itself, his service wings were reduced to thebasement level to form terraces, above which rose merely decorative outbuildings. Other elements than the rectangle were rarely involved in Colonial plans. Cor-ners were sometimes cut off diagonally for fireplaces or cupboards, as at single instance of a circular or elliptical room, or of a curved projection on theexterior, is attested before the Revolution. Even the octagonal projecting bay,which appeared in English books about 1750, is found only in a few late examples:. From a photograph by H. P. Cook Figure 54. Carters Grove. 1751 Monticello, 1771; Lansdowne, 1773; and the Harwood house at Annapolis, also onthe eve of the war, being the surely dated ones. The rear wing of the Roger Morris(Jumel) house in New York, an octagon of unequal sides, is shown by early de-scriptions to form part of the original edifice of 1765. The polygonal porch of theSchuyler house, Albany, is a later addition;1 whether the same is true of the oneat Gunston Hall is uncertain. The stories in Colonial houses of the eighteenth century usually remained twoin number, but houses of three stories became increasingly common, especially inthe towns. In England academic country houses of three stories, ascribed to Webb 1 G. Schuyler, The Schuyler Mansion (iqii), p. AMERICAN DOMESTIC ARCHITECTURE —Thorpe Hall and Ashdown House—were erected about the time of the Restora-tion. As early as 1679 the Sergeant house in Boston seems to have had its fullthree stories, and by 1700,
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