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
Digitizing Sponsor: Smithsonian Libraries

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From a photograph by Frank Coitsins Figure 155. The Woodlands, Philadelphia. Entrance front asremodelled, 1788 the most ambitious. Sixteen houses of three stories and a basement were arrangedin a solid crescent, the pair at each end brought forward to constitute a pavilion,and a special motive placed in the centre, arching a cross street. Opposite, facing 196 HOUSES OF THE EARLY REPUBLIC the crescent, were two pairs of larger semi-detached houses of similar treatment.When in 1801 the town of Boston, in which Bulfinch was chairman of the Select-men, sold the lots on Park Street, cut from the Common, to private owners, thedeeds contained the provision that all buildings to be erected on said bargainedpremises shall be regular and uniform with the other buildings that may be erectedon the other lots. Under this condition Bulfinch designed, among others, the
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Figure 156. Morton house, Roxbury. 1796Courtesy of Ogden Coalman block at the foot of the street containing four houses (figure 151). Within a fewyears he had also designed houses farther up, including the Amory (Ticknor) houseat the corner of Beacon Street (figure 165), which may certainly be assigned tohim on grounds of style. Then, in 1810, he gave the designs for Colonnade Rowalong the south side of the Common, nineteen houses, with nine others in two far-ther blocks, beyond. All told, they gave the Common of that day a harmoniousframe unequalled in America, and not unworthy of comparison with the civicimprovements which Bulfinch had admired abroad. 197 AMERICAN DOMESTIC ARCHITECTURE Other cities and architects soon took up the idea. In Philadelphia, in 1800and 1801, William Sansom built the first row of houses on a uniform plan . . .on Walnut Street north side, between Seventh and Eighth, and in the Street be-tween Walnut and Chestnut, from Seventh to Eighth, afterwards called Sa

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