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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had meanwhile sprung up under the stimulus of enthusiasm forthings Greek given by the War of Greek Independence, 1821-1827. At the timeof the Greek war, as John Bassett Moore has pointed out, American sympathy wasso great that a gentleman from western New York declared he could furnish, fromhis sparsely settled region, five hundred men, six feet high, with sinewy arms 1 His nephew, Philip Alexander Bruce, the distinguished historian of Virginia, informs me that he oftenheard it stated in the family that the house was modelled on Andalusia. 183 AMERICAN DOMESTIC ARCHITECTURE and case-hardened constitutions, bold spirits and daring adventurers, who wouldtravel upon a bushel of corn and a gallon of whiskey per man from the extremepart of the world to Constantinople. No one region had any special monopoly on the use of the temple form forhouses. It was employed in New England quite as much as in the South. Thetowns which prospered in the thirties and forties, such as the whaling ports of
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Figure 144. Anderson house, Throggs Neck, New York. J. R. Brady, about 1830From a contemporary lithograph in the possession of the New York Historical Society New Bedford and Nantucket, still have many examples. Others are listed amongthe works of Alexander Jackson Davis and Ithiel Town, between 1829 and 1833.1A critic unsympathetic with the style writes of its progress about Boston in 1836: Of late it has become much the fashion to build country houses in the form of a Greciantemple, with a projecting portico in the front, resting on very magnificent columns. Thisstyle prevails at Cambridge. These classic models, which surround the college, are imitatedclosely in Cambridge-Port. Two or three specimens of this style are to be seen on the roadwhich forms the continuation of the old Concord turnpike through the Port. One of them,in particular, we have noticed, as it has been in progress. It is a small edifice, the wholelength of which, including, the portico, may possibly be 30 ft., and

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