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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
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fthose which then began to pour forth, few issued before 1700 provided suitablematerial for the adoption of the classic style in ordinary domestic buildings. Mostof them showed only the forms of the five orders, suitable ornaments for a noble-mans seat like Hatfield but not the things most needed for an ordinary dwelling. Sir Henry Wottons suggestive work, The Elements of Architecture, pub-lished in 1624, is without illustrations, and in so far as it does not deal with practi- 56 THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY cal matters common to all styles, consists of rather erudite discussion of Vitruviandoctrine. Sir Balthazar Gerbiers two books (1662 and 1663) are likewise com-posed mainly of text, which urges the employment of an architect, then a luxurypossible only for the great. Only the orders were shown in John Shutes First and Chiefe Groundes ofArchitecture (1563), the earliest English book on academic architecture,1 and inEvelyns translation of Freart de Chambrays Parallele (1664).2 Little more
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From a photograpli by Frank Cousins Figure 33. Cliveden, Germantown, Pennsylvania. After 1763 was included in the translations of Bluoms Quinque columnarum . . . (1600and 1608),3 of Vignola (1665),4 and of Mauclerc (1676). The folio translations ofLomazzo (1598) and of Serlio (1611) contained, in addition, drawings of ancientbuildings, Venetian palace fronts, and some ancient doorways, and that of Fran-cinis Livre dArchitecture (1669) had gates and arches triumphant. Eventhe translation (1670) of Le Muets Maniere de bien bastir pour touttes sortesde personnes, which had first furnished models for houses in France, had little 1 New editions 1579, 1584. 2 New editions 1680, 1723, 1733. 3 The latter reissued in 1660. 4 Third edition 1673, fourth 1694, fifth 1702, others 1703, 1729. Another translation, in folio, 1666. 57 AMERICAN DOMESTIC ARCHITECTURE that was relevant in England. All these books were far less useful to house build-ers than the pocket versions of Palladios Book I (1663)

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