An Architectural Monograph On Colonial Architecture in Vermont
An Architectural Monograph On Colonial Architecture in Vermont
Chappell George Shepard
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" Be that as it may, here is the plain explana- tion of Vermont's singleness of style in her early architecture. Of the very earliest, the 17th dwellings, the period of the sturdy Georgian detail of Deerfield and Longmeadow, was still too early for the fluctuating, battledore-and- shuttlecock existence of the struggling colony. Vermont came into full architectural being just after the transition in styles had been effected which parallels interestingly what has happened recently in New York Cit...y and, in lesser degree, throughout the entire United States. In a word, the first Adam craze was on, — perhaps not the very first, but leaving the great original out of the discussion, the first architectural Adam was certainly the great popular style of the HOUSE AT WINDSOR, VERMONT. century and early 18th century type, there is practically none. It was not until the State was recognized and established that its staunch citi- zens began to build the dignified homes which we find in the lovely villages of Rutland, Wind- sor, Middlebury, and Vergennes.
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