The Architecture of Colonial America
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The Architecture of Colonial America is by Harold Donaldson Eberlein. The foreword gives the purpose of the volume as to set forth a brief history and an analysis of the architecture of Colonial America. The text says that Colonial America had two varieties of architecture, one of which is correctly called Colonial and the other is not. The text says the Colonial architecture evolved its distinctive forms in America subject to the dictates of local necessity while the Georgian was directly transplanted from England.
The text compares Whitby, Mount Pleasant and Cliveden with the former houses of the first Georgian type, and says the whole aspect is changed by the greater breadth of windows and doors. The text describes Benjamin Latrobe as a man of extraordinary mental endowments, an accomplished linguist and scholar, an eminent engineer and architect.
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- American History
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