Domestic Architecture of the American Colonies + Jefferson As An Architect

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Domestic Architecture
Of the American Colonies
And the Early Republic
By Fisk Kimball, 1922
364 Pages, Profusely Illustrated with photographs and line drawings,
Indexed, Searchable
- Bonus -
Thomas Jefferson
As An Architect And
A Designer of Landscapes
By William Alexander Lambeth, 1913
240 Pages, Illustrated, i
ndexed,
Searchable
- Bonus -
Colonial Southern Homes
Illustrated by Camera & Pen
By Charles Barrett, 1903
70 Pages, Illustrated, Indexed, Searchable
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INTRODUCTION
For fifty years and m
ore admiration and study of Colonial architecture have
grown, stimulating
each other, until to-day a vast literature and a wide-spread re-
vival testify to the
high appreciation of this phase of American art.
It is hard for us to
realize that this must not always have been the case, and
that, like other
styles, the Colonial had to pass through its day of contumely and
neglect at the hands
of the generations immediately following its creators. To
them, eager to
substitute something more monumental or romantic, it was merely
crude and
old-fashioned. Jefferson was the first to voice this judgment of pre-
Revolutionary
structures, when, in 1784, he characterized the college buildings at
William and Mary as
"rude misshapen piles, which, but that they have roots,
would be taken for
brick kilns," and when, writing from abroad in 1786, he says,
a propos of English
buildings, "Their architecture is in the most wretched style I
ever saw, not meaning
to except America, where it is bad, or even Virginia, where
it is worse than in
any other part of America, that I have seen." In an interesting
sketch of the art in
this country published by the North American Review in 1836,
H. W. S. Cleveland
speaks with great condescension of any work previous to the
Greek and Gothic
revivals. The first historical account of American buildings, in-
cluded by Mrs.
Tuthill of Philadelphia in her now almost forgotten "History of
Architecture
"(1848), speaks of the old New England meeting-houses as "outrage-
ous deformities to
the eye of taste," and of the houses as "wooden enormities" !
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