Domestic architecture of the American colonies and of the early republic . burg before the templewas again taken as a model for a dwelling, but when it finally was, it quickly be-came the universal type. Its victory was rendered possible by the adoption mean- 1 Kimball, Thomas Jefferson, Architect, fig. 133. 2 McComb collection, New York Historical Society, no. 254. 3 Drawings in possession of Ferdinand C. Latrobe, of Baltimore. 4 Drawings are published by G. E. Woodward, The House, A Manual of Rural Architecture (1869), atp. 92. Cf. the description in Notes and Queries of the Boston Transcrip
Domestic architecture of the American colonies and of the early republic . burg before the templewas again taken as a model for a dwelling, but when it finally was, it quickly be-came the universal type. Its victory was rendered possible by the adoption mean- 1 Kimball, Thomas Jefferson, Architect, fig. 133. 2 McComb collection, New York Historical Society, no. 254. 3 Drawings in possession of Ferdinand C. Latrobe, of Baltimore. 4 Drawings are published by G. E. Woodward, The House, A Manual of Rural Architecture (1869), atp. 92. Cf. the description in Notes and Queries of the Boston Transcript, 1918, no. 3895. A recent account,with a photograph and drawings, is in Old-Time New England, vol. 11 (1921), pp. 173-175. I78 HOUSES OF THE EARLY REPUBLIC while of the form of the temple for public buildings, without real parallel Virginia Capitol at Richmond, 1785-1789, modelled on the Maison Car-ree, and Latrobes Bank of Pennsylvania, 1799-1801, with the Greek order of theErechtheum, had made the temple form familiar and had habituated people, al-. Figure 139. Andalusia, Bucks County, Pennsylvania. Portico, 1834 to 1836 Courtesy of Edward Biddle ready filled with classical enthusiasm, to its imitation in buildings devoted topractical use. The step of building a house like a temple was finally taken by Jef-ferson himself in several of the pavilions of the University of Virginia, which hedesigned to serve as specimens of orders for the architectural lectures. To besure, these pavilions were not houses merely, since each contained the classroom 179 AMERICAN DOMESTIC ARCHITECTURE as well as the lodgings of a professor, but with the enlarged living quarters formen with families, the domestic use was physically the more important. The firstpavilion (figure 136), which followed a suggestion from William Thornton, itselfhad, in Jeffersons conception of it as showing itself above the dormitories, theform of a Doric prostyle temple of six columns, and a pediment th
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