Identifier: domesticarchite00kimb (find matches)
Title: Domestic architecture of the American colonies and of the early republic
Year: 1922 (1920s)
Authors: Kimball, Fiske, 1888-1955 New York. Metropolitan Museum of Art. Committee on Education
Subjects: Architecture, Domestic Architecture, Colonial
Publisher: New York, C. Scribner's Sons
Contributing Library: Smithsonian Libraries
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khouses are merely rectangular, and do not show features of special note. Some haveperhaps been rebuilt, but in others the absence of such treatment as is common inthe chimneys of wooden houses may be due to the approach of the style to come. The doorways of the brick houses in general do not show much elaboration.Those of Bacons Castle and of the Tufts house have segmental arched heads,whereas that of the Penn house, somewhat later, has a flat arch. The Warren house,Carters Creek, and the Slate House had light gabled porches, but it is impos-sible to tell whether they date from the time of the original construction. In thePeter Sergeant house there appeared for the first time a small portico with columns 47 AMERICAN DOMESTIC ARCHITECTURE and entablature—a feature first used in England at Thorpe Hall, during the Com-monwealth—which seems always to have belonged to the house, since it was pre-cisely in its iron balcony rail that occurred the first owners initials and the date 1679.
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Figure 27. William Perm (Letitia) house, on its original site. 1682-1683From an old photograph in the possession of the Historical Society of Pennsylvania The windows of many of the brick houses have been enlarged, and there is notsuch good evidence for their size and proportion as that furnished by the mor-tises of a wooden house. In the Tufts house there were apparently banks of case- 48 THE SEVENTEENTH CENTURY ments beneath a segmental relieving arch. At Bacons Castle the chief openings,also segmental in the lower story, were larger, and Mr. Millar is doubtless correctin restoring them with a transom—a feature which appears in the old view of theBradstreet house in Salem. The large rectangular openings must also have madetransoms necessary with the original casement sash mentioned in the early descrip-tion of the Slate House. As this finest house in Philadelphia, recommended by

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