Domestic architecture of the American colonies and of the early republic . ith quoins. The Hancock house (figure 34), 1737-1740, has door andwindows sumptuously framed and the modillions of the cornice are carved (figure62). So much elaboration of the openings, however, remained exceptional. It was more common for the wall surface itself to be enriched by groovings orrustication. This was true not merely in masonry but imitatively in quoins at the angles are found earliest in Colonel Robert Brewtons 1 B. Oliver, Old Houses of East Anglia (1912). 2 P. O. Hutchinson, Diary and Le
Domestic architecture of the American colonies and of the early republic . ith quoins. The Hancock house (figure 34), 1737-1740, has door andwindows sumptuously framed and the modillions of the cornice are carved (figure62). So much elaboration of the openings, however, remained exceptional. It was more common for the wall surface itself to be enriched by groovings orrustication. This was true not merely in masonry but imitatively in quoins at the angles are found earliest in Colonel Robert Brewtons 1 B. Oliver, Old Houses of East Anglia (1912). 2 P. O. Hutchinson, Diary and Letters of Thomas Hutchinson, vol. 1 (1884), p. 54. 92 THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY house in Charleston, before 1733, in the east front of the Royall house, 1733-1737,in the Hancock house, 1737, and in the Roger Morris house—the last two ofactual masonry, the other of brick faced with wood. Dated examples of rustica-tion over the whole surface are, in masonry, the central pavilion of Mount Airy,17^8; in wood, the west front of the Royall house, probably before 1750, the Pick-. Fru/rt a photograph by Fran/.- Con$i7ls Figure 64. Jeremiah Lee house, Marblehead, Massachusetts. 1768 man (figure 63) and Orne houses, Essex Street, Salem, 1750 and 1761, the JeremiahLee house, Marblehead (figure 64), 1768, and the entrance front of Mount Vernon,dating in its present form from about The most pretentious houses, as time went on, sought distinction rather bytreatment with elements primarily formal in their very nature—pavilions, pilas-ters, and porticos. The first academic house in the colonies to have a projecting central pavilion,was Rosewell (figure 65), before 1730, antedating any other by a score of years. At 1 See letter of Lund Washington quoted by P. Wilstach, Mount Vernon (1916), p. 141. 93 AMERICAN DOMESTIC ARCHITECTURE Rosewell the pavilions, front and rear, are masses deep enough to affect the spaces ofthe interior, but a glance at the plan reveals that they were adopted for
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