Domestic architecture of the American colonies and of the early republic . espects continued in rapid evolution. Windows in the Colonial period had been almost universally single and square-headed, the only exceptions, aside from the early segmental ones, being the archedstair-windows and the Palladian motives, which were confined to an axial contrast with this the houses of the early republic frequently had arched win-dows, windows of semicircular, circular, and even elliptical form, and triplegroupings of many sorts, used in the side rooms as well as in the centre, 1 Plate 117. 2
Domestic architecture of the American colonies and of the early republic . espects continued in rapid evolution. Windows in the Colonial period had been almost universally single and square-headed, the only exceptions, aside from the early segmental ones, being the archedstair-windows and the Palladian motives, which were confined to an axial contrast with this the houses of the early republic frequently had arched win-dows, windows of semicircular, circular, and even elliptical form, and triplegroupings of many sorts, used in the side rooms as well as in the centre, 1 Plate 117. 209 AMERICAN DOMESTIC ARCHITECTURE Ranges of arched windows, oblong with semicircular heads, appear in 1788 atthe Woodlands, on the river front, and soon after in the Presidents house atPhiladelphia (figure 158), in Monticello as remodelled, in Woodlawn, and in theBurd house, Philadelphia (figure 167), as well as later in the Larkin house, Ports-mouth (figure 168), and in Arlington (figure 138). Palladian windows of the sort common in academic and Colonial buildings con-. Figure 170. Bingham house, Philadelphia. Before 1788From the engraving by William Birch, 1800 tinued in use after the Revolution, although rarely after 1800. The Bingham. house, the John Brown house in Providence, the George Read II house in New-castle have them, in quite the old form, with pilasters, entablatures over the sidebays, and an archivolt over the central arch. Later examples, in the wings ofHomewood and in the Nathaniel Silsbee house on Salem Common (figure 173),built in 1818, have no enframing order beyond the jambs, and merely a band ofvoussoirs bent over all three divisions. 210 HOUSES OF THE EARLY REPUBLIC More commonly in republican days the Palladian window was framed by ashallow bearing arch. This motive, a favorite one with the Adams, had been usedonce, we may recall, in the colonies just before the war—in the Chase house atAnnapolis. It was now adopted when the Woodlands was remodelled (f
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