Domestic architecture of the American colonies and of the early republic . overed by a small penthouseroot. This occurs in dated examples from 1744 to 1762; at Whitby, 1754, side byside with a grammatical pediment on the staircase tower. Fully half of the more important Colonial houses of the eighteenth century hadthe hip-roof with a level cornice line all about, as in Coleshill, Thorpe Hall, andother English houses ascribed to Inigo Jones and Webb, and dated about form was first adopted in America, as we have seen, just before 1700. Theearliest examples rose to a ridge, and the ridg
Domestic architecture of the American colonies and of the early republic . overed by a small penthouseroot. This occurs in dated examples from 1744 to 1762; at Whitby, 1754, side byside with a grammatical pediment on the staircase tower. Fully half of the more important Colonial houses of the eighteenth century hadthe hip-roof with a level cornice line all about, as in Coleshill, Thorpe Hall, andother English houses ascribed to Inigo Jones and Webb, and dated about form was first adopted in America, as we have seen, just before 1700. Theearliest examples rose to a ridge, and the ridge was retained until the Revolutionin those houses in which the masses were relatively narrow, whether in an H planor a long rectangle. Even where the house was more nearly square there werecertain instances of keeping the ridge, as Westover (figure 59) after 1726 and Car-ters Grove in 1751, with their vast expanse of roof surface. In general, however,such a roof was cut off at the top. Sometimes this was done in the true mansard 1 Currier, Ould Newbury, pp. 317-319. 86. o AMERICAN DOMESTIC ARCHITECTURE form with steep lower slopes, and tour visible upper slopes of less inclination, as atAmpthill, Chesterfield County, Virginia, about 1732; Shirley Place, Roxbury,Massachusetts, 1746; the Van Cortlandt house, Lower Yonkers, 1748; the JohnVassall (Longfellow) house, 1759; and a number of fine houses of undetermineddate, none of them substantially later than these. Even before this time, in ex-ceptional instances, the roof was cut off by a deck, as nearly flat as might be, as in
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