Domestic architecture of the American colonies and of the early republic . Figure 164. Design for a city houseCharles Bulfinch, after 1800 From the original drawing in the possession ofthe Massachusetts Institute of Technology 104 HOUSES OF THE EARLY REPUBLIC employed segmental arches, with grouped and mullioned windows. These appearbelow the order in Bulfinchs first house, the one for Joseph Barrel] (figure 184).His design for the Hasket Derby mansion (figure 160), in 1795, followed the Pro-vosts House in Dublin—a copy of General Wades—Maltons view of which, pub-lished the same year, formed p
Domestic architecture of the American colonies and of the early republic . Figure 164. Design for a city houseCharles Bulfinch, after 1800 From the original drawing in the possession ofthe Massachusetts Institute of Technology 104 HOUSES OF THE EARLY REPUBLIC employed segmental arches, with grouped and mullioned windows. These appearbelow the order in Bulfinchs first house, the one for Joseph Barrel] (figure 184).His design for the Hasket Derby mansion (figure 160), in 1795, followed the Pro-vosts House in Dublin—a copy of General Wades—Maltons view of which, pub-lished the same year, formed part of Bulfinchs library. He likewise vised base-ment arcades, sometimes circular, sometimes segmental, under the pilasters of hisown house, the Hersey Derby house, the Otis house on Mount Vernon Street (fig-ure 161), and the houses opposite Franklin Crescent. In his houses at the footof Park Street (figure 151), in 1804, the basement story has the segmental arches,. Figure 165. Thomas Amory (Ticknor) house, Park Street, Boston, 1803 to 1804 Courtesy of Ogden Codman although the upper stories are plain. Mclntire did not adopt the arcaded base-ment, but arches as well as pilasters were taken over in the later imitations of Bul-finchs work. John McComb, of New York, who used the arcaded basement in a design about1799 (figure 163), seems to have led in adopting arcades framing the windows ofthe main story, in another of the same date. Both1 show blind arches supportedon pilasters or pilaster-like piers. Bulfinch used an arcaded main story with plainpiers in a1 study on paper watermarked 18002 (figure 164), filling the lunettes alsowith glass. The Amory (Ticknor) house at Park and Beacon Streets (figure 165),surely to be attributed to him, and his Parkman houses in Bowdoin Square (figure166) soon followed. All these have a tall basement below, although a preliminarydesign for the Parkman house has not. Asher Benjamin, in his American Build-ers Compani
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