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==History==
 
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[[File:0320.jpg|thumb|right|Fig. 1, [[William Russell Birch]], "York-Island with a View of the Seats of Mr. A. Gracie, Mr. Church &c.," 1808.]]  
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[[File:0320.jpg|thumb|left|Fig. 1, William Russell Birch, “York-Island, with a '''View''' of the [[Seat]]s of M.<sup>r</sup> A. Gracie, M.<sup>r</sup> Church &c.,” in ''The Country [[Seat]]s of the United States of North America'' (1808), pl. 17.]]
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Several words were used synonymously to describe covered walks or spaces supported by [[column]]s or piers and attached to, or to part of, a building. This architectural feature spoke to the interrelatedness of architecture and gardens, a relationship that grew out of the romantic interest in landscape characterizing the aesthetics of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.  
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Portico is one of several words (including [[piazza]], [[porch]], and [[veranda]]) used to describe covered [[walk]]s or spaces supported by [[column]]s or piers and attached to, or to part of, a building. This architectural feature spoke to the interrelatedness of architecture and gardens, a relationship that grew out of the romantic interest in landscape characterizing the aesthetics of the 18th and 19th centuries. Two images exemplify the importance of these structures in creating and framing views of the garden and landscape. The first is a drawing of York Island, Long Island, by William Russell Birch (1808), who explained that the [[view]] was taken from the [[piazza]], a place from which one could see “innumerable [[seat]]s, spreading over an extensive country which glittered as the sun arose” [Fig. 1].<ref>William Russell Birch, ''The Country Seats of the United States of North America: With Some Scenes Connected with Them'' (Springland, PA: W. Birch, 1808), [https://www.zotero.org/groups/54737/items/itemKey/BAIMV4GZ view on Zotero].</ref> The second is from [[A. J. Downing]]’s book on wooden [[picturesque]] houses, ''The Architecture of Country Houses'' (1850) [Fig. 2]. Both illustrate views from the bracketed [[piazza]], or veranda, as [[A. J. Downing|Downing]] preferred to call it, out to the distant [[prospect]].
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[[File:0916.jpg|thumb|left|Fig. 2, Anonymous, "Bracketed Veranda from the inside", 1850.]]
 
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Two images exemplify the importance of the [[piazza]], [[veranda]], [[porch]], and portico in creating and framing views of the garden and landscape. The first is a drawing of [[York Island]], Long Island, by [[William Russell Birch]] (1808), who explained that the [[view]] was taken from the [[piazza]], a place from which one could see "innumerable [[seat]]s, spreading over an extensive country which glittered as the sun arose" [Fig. 1].<ref>William Russell Birch, ''The Country Seats of the United States of North America: With Some Scenes Connected with Them'' (Springland, Pa.: W. Birch, 1808), [https://www.zotero.org/groups/54737/items/itemKey/BAIMV4GZ view on Zotero].</ref> The second is from [[A. J. Downing]]'s book on wooden [[picturesque]] houses, ''The Architecture of Country Houses'' (1850) [Fig. 2]. Both illustrated views from the bracketed [[piazza]], or [[veranda]], as [[A. J. Downing|Downing]] preferred to call it, out to the distant [[prospect]].
 
  
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Various treatises used all of these terms interchangeably in their definitions. [[Alexander Jackson Davis]] and [[A. J. Downing|Downing]] also used the term 'umbrage' to refer to the same feature on a house, implying a place of shade.<ref> William Pierson, Jr., traces the origins of the feature, specifically found in [[Alexander Jackson Davis]] and [[A. J. Downing|A. J. Downing]]'s work, to the awning or canopy partaking of an oriental flavor. In general, its origin was a semi-enclosed outdoor space that was not at all architectural but was related to the ornamental canopy or tent. This connection might explain why the detail flourished during the high romantic period in American architecture. See Pierson, ''American Buildings and Their Architects: Technology and the Picturesque, the Corporate and the Early Gothic Styles'', vol. 2 (New York: Doubleday, 1978), 300-304, [https://www.zotero.org/groups/54737/items/itemKey/J8FITVZG/q/Pierson| view on Zotero.]</ref> [[Mary Elizabeth Latrobe]] mentioned that in New Orleans the [[piazza]] was known as the gallery.<ref name="Latrobe_1951"> Benjamin Henry Latrobe. ''Impressions Respecting New Orleans: Diaries and Sketches, 1818–1820'', ed. Samuel Wilson (New York: Columbia University Press, 1951), [https://www.zotero.org/groups/54737/items/itemKey/MJS5EE69/q/latrobe view on Zotero]. </ref> Contrasting usage of these words sometimes could offer distinctions. Rev. Manasseh Cutler, for example, in his description of [[Monticello]], said that the term "portico" refers to smaller entrance porches and the term "[[piazza]]" to extended covered walkways stretching perpendicularly from the porticos.  
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[[File:0916.jpg|thumb|Fig. 2, Anonymous, “Bracketed [[Veranda]] from the inside,” in [[A. J. Downing]], ''The Architecture of Country Houses'' (1850), 122, fig. 45.]]
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Treatises often used these terms interchangeably, along with a few other less common words that were more or less synonymous. [[Andrew Jackson Downing|Downing]] and [[Alexander Jackson Davis]] used the term “umbrage” to refer to the same feature on a house, implying a place of shade; Downing used the term “[[pavilion]]” synonymously with “[[veranda]]”; and Mary Elizabeth Latrobe mentioned that in New Orleans the [[piazza]] was also known as the gallery.<ref> William Pierson Jr. traces the origins of the feature, specifically found in Alexander Jackson Davis and A. J. Downing’s work, to the awning or canopy partaking of an oriental flavor. In general, its origin was a semi-enclosed outdoor space that was not at all architectural but was related to the ornamental canopy or tent. This connection might explain why the detail flourished during the high romantic period in American architecture. See Pierson, ''American Buildings and Their Architects: Technology and the Picturesque, the Corporate and the Early Gothic Styles'', 2 vols. (New York: Doubleday, 1978), 2:300–4, [https://www.zotero.org/groups/54737/items/itemKey/J8FITVZG/q/Pierson view on Zotero]. Also see Alexander Jackson Downing, ''The Architecture of Country Houses; Including Designs for Cottages, Farm-Houses, and Villas'' (1850; repr., New York: D. Appleton; Da Capo, 1968), 357, [https://www.zotero.org/groups/54737/items/itemKey/GRZPQXQI view on Zotero].</ref> Contrasting usage sometimes reveals distinctions. In his plan for a country house, [[Andrew Jackson Downing|Downing]] also used the term “[[porch]]” to identify the central area of the [[veranda]] leading to the entryway. <span id="Ranlett_cite"></span>The 19th-century architect William H. Ranlett sometimes distinguished between [[piazza]] and [[veranda]], using “[[piazza]]” for a [[walk]] over which a projecting roof might be added, and “[[veranda]]” for a structure that included a roof ([[#Ranlett|view text]]). Two points are important in the history of these terms: First, these architectural elements served to elide the boundaries of the garden and building by linking interior and exterior space both visually and physically. Second, the associative values of refinement and domesticity, and even national progress, were read into the forms.
  
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The term "portico" was also used when referring to a covered space that was supported by [[column]]s or piers and was attached to a building. Semantic distinctions were made, however, using "portico" to identify the principal entrances to the house and "[[piazza]]" for the extended side [[porch]]es. The higher status of the portico, as opposed to [[piazza]], [[veranda]], or [[porch]], was emphasized by its frequent modification by adjectives such as "handsome," "noble," and "elegant."  The word "portico" seems not to have been used to refer to covered walkways that linked separate buildings, as is made clear in the distinction in 1777 regarding the College of William and Mary in Williamsburg, Va. <span id="Smith_cite"></span> Margaret Bayard Smith in 1828 said the portico at President [[James Madison|James Madison's]] plantation, [[Montpelier]], commanded a [[view]], "a beautiful scene," of extensive [[lawn]]s and forests, where viewers walked through the portico until twilight when the landscape was no longer visible ([[#Smith|view text]]) [Fig. 4]. <span id="Mason_cite"></span>[[John Mason]]  recalled the portico at George Mason's Gunston Hall, near Mason Neck, Va., from which "you descended directly into an extensive garden."([[#Mason|view text]]) <span id="Downing2_cite"></span>[[A. J. Downing|Downing's]] 1849   comments conveyed a similar meaning, suggesting that the portico served to connect the building, visually and also physically, "by gradual transition with the ground about it." ([[#Downing2|view text]])  
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[[File:0580.jpg|thumb|Fig. 3, Lewis Miller, “[[Mount Vernon]]” [detail], in ''Orbis Pictus'' (c. 1849), 108.]]
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[[File:0580.jpg|thumb|Fig. 5, Lewis Miller, "[[Mount Vernon]]" [detail], c. 1835. [[Lewis Miller|Miller]] noted on his drawing that "A lofty portico ... has a pleasing effect when viewed from the water."]]
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The term “portico” was also used when referring to a covered space that was supported by [[column]]s or piers and was attached to a building. Semantic distinctions were made, however, using “portico” to identify the principal entrances to the house and “[[piazza]]” for the extended side [[porch]]es. The higher status of the portico, as opposed to [[piazza]], [[veranda]], or [[porch]], was emphasized by its frequent modification by adjectives such as “handsome,” “noble,” and “elegant.” The word “portico” seems not to have been used to refer to covered walkways that linked separate buildings, <span id="Shelley_cite"></span>as is made clear in the distinction in 1777 regarding the College of William and Mary in Williamsburg, Virginia ([[#Shelley|view text]]). <span id="Smith_cite"></span> Margaret Bayard Smith in 1828 said the portico at President James Madison’s [[plantation]], Montpelier, commanded a [[view]], “a beautiful scene,” of extensive [[lawn]]s and forests, where viewers walked through the portico until twilight when the landscape was no longer visible ([[#Smith|view text]]). <span id="Mason_cite"></span>John Mason recalled the portico at George Mason’s Gunston Hall, near Mason Neck, Virginia, from which “you descended directly into an extensive garden”([[#Mason|view text]]). <span id="Downing2_cite"></span>[[A. J. Downing|Downing’s]] 1849 comments conveyed a similar meaning, suggesting that the portico served to connect the building, visually and also physically, “by gradual transition with the ground about it” ([[#Downing2|view text]]).
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The portico served as a focal, as well as a viewing, point. <span id="Miller_cite"></span> [[Lewis Miller]], for example, in 1849 wrote that at [[Mount Vernon]] the "lofty portico . . . has a pleasing effect when viewed from the water" ([[#Miller|view text]]) [Fig. 5]. Often the portico was distinguished from the building it ornamented by its material, creating a distant focus for the spectator from the garden or surrounding landscape. A brick building was sometimes ornamented with a contrasting white stone or painted wood portico. As <span id="Warden_cite"></span> [[David Bailie Warden]]  noted in 1816, such a feature made a house "admirably adapted to the American climate." ([[#Warden|view text]])
 
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[[File:1735.jpg|thumb|left|Fig. 6, [[Batty Langley|Batty]] and [[Thomas Langley]], "Gothick [sic] Portico", 1747.]]
 
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[[File:0990.jpg|thumb|Fig. 7, [[Thomas Birch]], ''Southeast View of Sedgeley Park'', c. 1819]]
 
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Porticos generally were dressed in a classical style, meaning that classical [[column]]s supported the low-pitched roof and the front was finished with an entablature and pediment. Many descriptions specified Doric (e.g., [[Centre Square]] in Philadelphia), Tuscan (e.g., the [[Woodlands]] near Philadelphia), or Corinthian (e.g., Ranlett's design for a house in Italian bracketed style). Two notable exceptions to the classical style, however, are well known. William Buckland's fanciful octagonal porch at [[Gunston Hall]] (1755-58) had ogee [[arch]]es and is thought to have been inspired by the writings of [[Batty Langley]], who promoted Gothic and chinoiserie details for architectural decoration [Fig. 6]. [[Benjamin Henry Latrobe|Benjamin Henry Latrobe's]] Gothic design for [[Sedgeley]], near Philadelphia (1799) [Fig. 7], which is considered one of the earliest Gothic revival houses in America, had tall slender posts supporting the roof.  
 
  
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Thus, two points are important in the history of these terms: First, these architectural elements served to elide the boundaries of the garden and building by linking interior and exterior space both visually and physically. Second, the associative values of refinement and domesticity, and even national progress, were read into the forms.  
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[[File:1735.jpg|thumb|left|Fig. 4, Batty and Thomas Langley, “Gothick [''sic''] Portico,” in ''Gothic Architecture'' (1747), pl. 32.]]
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The portico served as a focal, as well as a viewing, point. <span id="Miller_cite"></span> Lewis Miller, for example, in 1849 wrote that at [[Mount Vernon]] the “lofty portico. . . has a pleasing effect when viewed from the water” ([[#Miller|view text]]) [Fig. 3]. Often the portico was distinguished from the building it ornamented by its material, creating a distant focus for the spectator from the garden or surrounding landscape. A brick building was sometimes ornamented with a contrasting white stone or painted wood portico. As <span id="Warden_cite"></span> David Bailie Warden noted in 1816, such a feature made a house “admirably adapted to the American climate” ([[#Warden|view text]]).
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[[File:0990.jpg|thumb|Fig. 5, Thomas Birch, ''Southeast View of Sedgeley Park'', c. 1819]]
  
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--''Therese O'Malley''
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Porticoes generally were dressed in a classical style, meaning that classical [[column]]s supported the low-pitched roof and the front was finished with an entablature and pediment. Many descriptions specified Doric (e.g., Centre Square in Philadelphia), Tuscan (e.g., [[The Woodlands]] near Philadelphia), or Corinthian (e.g., Ranlett’s design for a house in Italian bracketed style). Two notable exceptions to the classical style, however, are well known. William Buckland’s fanciful octagonal porch at Gunston Hall (1755–58) had ogee [[arch]]es and is thought to have been inspired by the writings of Batty Langley, who promoted Gothic and chinoiserie details for architectural decoration [Fig. 4]. [[Benjamin Henry Latrobe|Benjamin Henry Latrobe’s]] Gothic design for Sedgeley, near Philadelphia (1799) [Fig. 5], which is considered one of the earliest Gothic revival houses in America, had tall slender posts supporting the roof.
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—''Therese O’Malley''
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*Anonymous, 1737, describing in the ''St. Philip’s Parish Vestry Book'' St. Philip’s Parish, Charleston, SC (quoted in Lounsbury 1994: 287)<ref name=”Lounsbury_1994”>Carl R. Lounsbury, ed., ''An Illustrated Glossary of Early Southern Architecture and Landscape'' (New York: Oxford University Press, 1994), [https://www.zotero.org/groups/54737/items/itemKey/UK5TCUQQ view on Zotero].</ref>
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:“[Workmen recommended the constructions of] a large Cornish under ye eves & round ye '''Porticoes'''.”
  
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* Anonymous, 1737, describing in the ''St. Philip's Parish Vestry Book'' St. Philip's Parish, Charleston, S.C. (quoted in Lounsbury 1994: 287) <ref name="Lounsbury_1994">Carl R. Lounsbury, ed., ''An Illustrated Glossary of Early Southern Architecture and Landscape'' (New York: Oxford University Press, 1994), [https://www.zotero.org/groups/54737/items/itemKey/UK5TCUQQ/ view on Zotero].</ref> 
 
  
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: "[Workmen recommended the constructions of] a large Cornish under ye eves & round ye '''Porticoes'''."
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*Carroll, Charles (the Barrister), July 2, 1767, describing Mount Clare, plantation of Charles and Margaret Tilghman Carroll, Baltimore, MD (quoted in Trostel 1981: 34)<ref>Michael Trostel, ''Mount Clare, Being an Account of the Seat Built by Charles Carroll, Barrister, upon His Lands at Patapsco'' (Baltimore: National Society of the Colonial Dames of America in the State of Maryland, 1981), [https://www.zotero.org/groups/54737/items/itemKey/NTB2KX7C view on Zotero].</ref>
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:“The Plan is for a '''Portico''' or Colonade to be Joined to the Front of a House and Project Eight Feet from it, An [[Arch]] at Both Ends, for a Passage through it, to Spring from Pilasters of Stone Joined to the End [[Pillar]]s of the front of the '''Portico''' and the two three Quarter Round [[Column]]s, I think they Call them, that Run up Close to the wall of the House.”
  
  
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* [[Charles Carroll|Carroll, Charles]] (the Barrister), July 2, 1767, describing [[Mount Clare]], [[plantation]] of Charles and Margaret Tilghman Carroll, Baltimore, Md. (quoted in Trostel 1981: 34)<ref>Michael Trostel, ''Mount Clare, Being an Account of the Seat Built by Charles Carroll, Barrister, upon His Lands at Patapsco'' (Baltimore: National Society of the Colonial Dames of America in the State of Maryland, 1981), [https://www.zotero.org/groups/54737/items/itemKey/NTB2KX7C view on Zotero]</ref>
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*Anonymous, 1769, describing in the ''Georgia Gazette'' a proposed Presbyterian meetinghouse in Savannah, GA (quoted in Lounsbury 1994: 287)<ref name=”Lounsbury_1994”></ref>
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:“[The meetinghouse was to be] 80 feet long by 47 feet wide. . . with a handsome light steeple in proportion to the frame, a portico at one end of 50 by 10 feet.”
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: "The Plan is for a '''Portico''' or Colonade to be Joined to the Front of a House and Project Eight Feet from it, An [[Arch]] at Both Ends, for a Passage through it, to Spring from Pilasters of Stone Joined to the End [[Pillar]]s of the front of the '''Portico''' and the two three Quarter Round [[Column]]s, I think they Call them, that Run up Close to the wall of the House."
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*Fithian, Philip Vickers, March 18, 1774, describing Nomini Hall, Westmoreland County, VA (1943: 107)<ref>Philip Vickers Fithian, ''Journal & Letters of Philip Vickers Fithian, 1773–1774: A Plantation Tutor of the Old Dominion'', ed. Hunter D. Farish (Williamsburg, VA: Colonial Williamsburg, 1943), [https://www.zotero.org/groups/54737/items/itemKey/XJX4WV8F view on Zotero].</ref>
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:“The North side [of Nomini Hall] I think is most beautiful of all; In the upper Story is a Row of seven Windows with eighteen Lights a piece; and below six windows, with the like number of lights; besides a large '''Portico''' in the middle, at the sides of which are two Windows each with eighteen Lights.”
  
  
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* Anonymous, 1769, describing in the ''Georgia Gazette'' a proposed Presbyterian meetinghouse in Savannah, Ga. (quoted in Lounsbury 1994: 287) <ref name="Lounsbury_1994"> </ref>
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*<div id="Shelley"></div>Hazard, Ebenezer, May 31, 1777, describing the College of William and Mary, Williamsburg, VA (quoted in Shelley 1954: 405)<ref> Fred Shelley, “The Journal of Ebenezer Hazard in Virginia, 1777,” ''Virginia Magazine of History and Biography'' 62 (1954): 400–23, [https://www.zotero.org/groups/54737/keywords_in_early_american_landscape_design/items/itemKey/Q8VUV2A3 view on Zotero].</ref>
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:“The Wings are on the West Front, between them is a covered Parade, which reaches from the one to the other; the '''Portico''' is supported by Stone [[Pillar]]s.” [[#Shelley_cite|back up to History]]
  
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: "[The meetinghouse was to be] 80 feet long by 47 feet wide . . . with a handsome light steeple in proportion to the frame, a portico at one end of 50 by 10 feet."
 
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* [[Philip Vickers Fithian|Fithian, Philip Vickers]], March 18, 1774, describing [[Nomini Hall]], Westmoreland County, Va. (1943: 107)<ref>Philip Vickers Fithian, ''Journal & Letters of Philip Vickers Fithian, 1773-1774: A Plantation Tutor of the Old Dominion'', ed. by Hunter D. Farish (Williamsburg, Va.: Colonial Williamsburg, 1943) [https://www.zotero.org/groups/54737/items/itemKey/XJX4WV8F view on Zotero]</ref>
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*Clark, Jonathan, 1786, describing a farm in the Shenandoah Valley, VA (quoted in Lounsbury 1994: 287)<ref name=”Lounsbury_1994”></ref>
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:“[There was a] fraimed dwelling house 26 by 20. . . and a '''portico''' the length of the fraimed house five feet wide.”
  
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: "The North side [of [[Nomini Hall|Nomini Hall]]] I think is most beautiful of all; In the upper Story is a Row of seven Windows with eighteen Lights a piece; and below six windows, with the like number of lights; besides a large '''Portico''' in the middle, at the sides of which are two Windows each with eighteen Lights."
 
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* [[Ebenezer Hazard|[Hazard, Ebenezer]], May 31, 1777, describing the College of William and Mary, Williamsburg, Va. (quoted in Shelley 1954: 405)<ref> Fred Shelley, "The Journal of Ebenezer Hazard in Virginia, 1777", ''Virginia Magazine of History and Biography'' 62 (1954):400-423, [https://www.zotero.org/groups/54737/items/itemKey/Q8VUV2A3: view on Zotero.]</ref>  
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*Brissot de Warville, Jacques Pierre, 1792, describing [[Mount Vernon]], [[plantation]] of George Washington, Fairfax County, VA (quoted in Lockwood 1934: 2:61)<ref>Alice B. Lockwood, ed., ''Gardens of Colony and State: Gardens and Gardeners of the American Colonies and of the Republic before 1840'', 2 vols. (New York: Charles Scribner’s for the Garden Club of America, 1931–34), [https://www.zotero.org/groups/54737/items/itemKey/JNB7BI9T view on Zotero].</ref>
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:“I hastened to arrive at [[Mount Vernon]]. . . after having passed over two hills, you discover a country house of an elegant and majestic simplicity. . . This house overlooks the Potomack, enjoys an extensive prospect, has a vast and elegant '''portico''' on the front next to the river, and a convenient distribution of the apartments within.”
  
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: "The Wings are on the West Front, between them is a covered Parade, which reaches from the one to the other; the '''Portico''' is supported by Stone [[Pillar]]s."
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*Weld, Isaac, 1795, describing [[Monticello]], [[plantation]] of [[Thomas Jefferson]], Charlottesville, VA (1799: 2:207)<ref>Isaac Weld, ''Travels through the States of North America and the Provinces of Upper and Lower Canada, during the Years 1795, 1796, and 1797'', 2 vols. (London: John Stockdale, 1799), [https://www.zotero.org/groups/54737/items/itemKey/4HPKRDA7/q/weld|view on Zotero].</ref>
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:“In the center is another very spacious apartment, of an octagon form, reaching from the front to the rear of the house, the large folding glass doors of which, at each end, open under a '''portico'''.”
  
  
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* [[Jonathan Clark|Clark, Jonathan]], 1786, describing a farm in the Shenandoah Valley, Va. (quoted in Lounsbury 1994: 287) <ref name="Lounsbury_1994"> </ref>
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[[Image:0087.jpg|thumb|Fig. 6, [[Benjamin Henry Latrobe]], ''View of [[Mount Vernon]] looking to the North'', July 17, 1796.]]
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*[[Benjamin Henry Latrobe|Latrobe, Benjamin Henry]], July 19 1796, describing [[Mount Vernon]], [[plantation]] of George Washington, Fairfax County, VA (1977: 1:163)<ref>Benjamin Henry Latrobe, ''The Virginia Journals of Benjamin Henry Latrobe, 1795-1798'', ed. Edward C. Carter II, 2 vols. (New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1977), [https://www.zotero.org/groups/54737/items/itemKey/SZEEBG9K view on Zotero].</ref>
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:“The House is connected with the Kitchen offices by [[arcade]]s. . . Along the other front is a '''portico''' supported by 8 square [[pillar]]s, of good proportions and effect.” [Fig. 6]
  
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: "[There was a] fraimed dwelling house 26 by 20 . . . and a '''portico''' the length of the fraimed house five feet wide."
 
  
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*Anonymous, 1803, describing in the ''Virginia Herald'' a property for rent in Fredericksburg, VA (quoted in Lounsbury 1994: 286)<ref name=”Lounsbury_1994”></ref>
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:“. . . commodious close [[porch]] in front, and an open '''portico''' in the rear.”
  
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* [[ J. P. Brissot de Warville|Brissot de Warville, J. P.]], 1792, describing [[Mount Vernon]], plantation of [[George Washington]], Fairfax County, Va. (quoted in Lockwood 1934: 2:61)<ref>Alice B. Lockwood, ed., ''Gardens of Colony and State: Gardens and Gardeners of the American Colonies and of the Republic before 1840'', 2 vols. (New York: Charles Scribner’s for the Garden Club of America, 1931-34), [https://www.zotero.org/groups/54737/items/itemKey/JNB7BI9T view on Zotero].</ref>
 
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: "I hastened to arrive at [[Mount Vernon]]. . . . after having passed over two hills, you discover a country house of an elegant and majestic simplicity. . . . This house overlooks the Potomack, enjoys an extensive prospect, has a vast and elegant '''portico''' on the front next to the river, and a convenient distribution of the apartments within."
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*Anonymous, August 9, 1805, describing in the ''Virginia Herald'' a property for rent in Stafford County, VA (Colonial Williamsburg Foundation)
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:“FOR LEASE, A Lot of Land. . . On the above lot there is two convenient Dwelling houses, situate near each other, with two rooms on a floor and a '''portico''' to each, the whole length of the house, and convenient closets.”
  
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[[File:0087.jpg|thumb|Fig. 8, [[Benjamin Henry Latrobe]], "View of [[Mount Vernon]] looking to the North," July 17, 1796. "The portico faces to the East."]]
 
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* [[Isaac Weld|Weld, Isaac]], 1795, describing [[Monticello]], plantation of [[Thomas Jefferson]], Charlottesville, Va. (1799: 207)<ref>Isaac Weld, ''Travels through the States of North America and the Provinces of Upper and Lower Canada, during the Years 1795, 1796, and 1797.'' Vol. 2. (London: John Stockdale, 1799),[https://www.zotero.org/groups/54737/items/itemKey/4HPKRDA7/q/weld|  view on Zotero]</ref>
 
  
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: "In the center is another very spacious apartment, of an octagon form, reaching from the front to the rear of the house, the large folding glass doors of which, at each end, open under a '''portico'''."
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[[Image:0551.jpg|thumb|Fig. 7, John Lewis Krimmel, ''Fourth of July in Centre [[Square]]'', 1811–12.]]
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*Scott, Joseph, 1806, describing Centre Square and Fairmount Waterworks, Philadelphia, PA (1806: 25)<ref>Joseph A. Scott, ''Geographical Description of Pennsylvania'' (Philadelphia: Printed by R. Cochran, 1806), [https://www.zotero.org/groups/54737/items/itemKey/55XKIWPN view on Zotero].</ref>
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:“The water-works of Philadelphia are the most extensive of their kind of any in America. . . The water is discharged into a circular aqueduct, extending along Chestnut and Broad streets, into the middle of Market-street, in the centre square. . . The building in the centre square, is a square of sixty feet, with a Doric '''portico''' on the east and west fronts. From its centre rises a circular tower, forty feet in diameter. It is covered by a dome. The tower contains the engine and reservoir. . . large enough to contain 20,000 gallons, all the chimnies of the house, which form a marble pedestal, on the summit. The shafts of the [[column]]s of the '''porticos''', consist each of one solid block of marble, 14 feet 9 inches in length, and two feet nine inches in diameter, at the base.”[Fig. 7]
  
  
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* [[Benjamin Henry Latrobe|Latrobe, Benjamin Henry]], July 19 1796, describing [[Mount Vernon]], plantation of [[George Washington]], Fairfax County, Va. (1977: 1:163) <ref>Benjamin Henry Latrobe, ''The Virginia Journals of Benjamin Henry Latrobe, 1795-1798'', ed. Edward C. Carter II, 2 vols. (New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press, 1977), [https://www.zotero.org/groups/54737/items/itemKey/SZEEBG9K view on Zotero]. </ref>
 
  
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: "The House is connected with the Kitchen offices by [[arcade]]s. . . . Along the other front is a '''portico''' supported by 8 square [[pillar]]s, of good proportions and effect." [Fig. 8]  
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[[Image:0051.jpg|thumb|Fig. 8, William Strickland, “[[The Woodlands]],” 1809, in ''Casket'' 5, no. 10 (October 1830): pl. opp. 432.]]
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*Drayton, Charles, November 2, 1806, describing [[The Woodlands]], seat of [[William Hamilton]], near Philadelphia, PA (Drayton 1806: 55)<ref>Charles Drayton, “The Diary of Charles Drayton I, 1806,” Drayton Hall: A National Historic Trust Site, [https://www.zotero.org/groups/54737/items/itemKey/HAARCGXN view on Zotero].</ref>
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:“The [[walk]] is said to be a mile long—perhaps it is something less. One is led into the garden from the '''portico''', to the east or lefthand.” [Fig. 8]
  
  
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* Anonymous, 1803, describing in the ''Virginia Herald'' a property for rent in Fredericksburg, Va. (quoted in Lounsbury 1994: 286)<ref name="Lounsbury_1994"></ref>
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*Martin, William Dickinson, May 20, 1809, describing Philadelphia, PA (Colonial Williamsburg Foundation)
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:“The building in Centre Square, is Sixty feet in every direction; having a Doric '''portico''' in front, to the East & West.”
  
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: "commodious close [[porch]] in front, and an open '''portico''' in the rear."
 
  
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*Foster, Sir Augustus John, 1812, describing [[Monticello]], [[plantation]] of [[Thomas Jefferson]], Charlottesville, VA (1954: 144)<ref>Sir Augustus John Foster, ''Jeffersonian America: Notes on the United States of America Collected in the Years 1805–1806–1807 and 1811–1812'', ed. Richard Beale Davis (San Marino, CA: Huntington Library, 1954) [https://www.zotero.org/groups/54737/items/itemKey/7FU8NDF4 view on Zotero].</ref>
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:“The house has two '''porticoes''' of the Doric order, though one of them was not quite completed, and the pediment had in the meanwhile to be supported on the stems of four tulip trees, which are really, when well grown, as beautiful as the fluted shafts of Corinthian [[pillar]]s. They front north and south.”
  
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* Anonymous, August 9, 1805, describing in the ''Virginia Herald'' a property for rent in Stafford County, Va. (Colonial Williamsburg Foundation; hereafter CWF)
 
  
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: "FOR LEASE, A Lot of Land. . . . On the above lot there is two convenient Dwelling houses, situate near each other, with two rooms on a floor and a '''portico''' to each, the whole length of the house, and convenient closets."
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*<div id="Warden"></div>Warden, David Bailie, 1816, describing [[Riversdale]], estate of George and Rosalie Stier Calvert, Prince George’s County, MD (1816: 156)<ref name=”Warden_1816”>David Bailie Warden, ''A Chronographical and Statistical Description of the District of Columbia'' (Paris: Printed and sold by Smith, 1816), [https://www.zotero.org/groups/54737/items/itemKey/QF8TXC8D view on Zotero].</ref>
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:“The establishment of George Calvert, Esq. at Bladensburg, attracts attention. His mansion, consisting of two stories, seventy feet in length, and thirty-six in breadth, is admirably adapted to the American climate. On each side there is a large '''portico''', which shelters from the sun, rain, or snow.” [[#Warden_cite|back up to History]]
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[[File:0551.jpg|thumb|Fig. 3, John Lewis Krimmel, ''Fourth of July in Centre Square'', 1812.]]
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*Anonymous, September 30, 1820, describing in the ''Virginia Herald'' a property for rent in Culpeper County, VA (Colonial Williamsburg Foundation)
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* [[Joseph Scott|Scott, Joseph]], 1806, describing Centre Square and Waterworks, Philadelphia, Pa. (p. 25)<ref>Joseph A. Scott, ''Geographical Description of Pennsylvania'' (Philadelphia: Printed by R. Cochran, 1806), [https://www.zotero.org/groups/54737/items/itemKey/55XKIWPN view on Zotero.]</ref>
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:“I will sell my tavern establishment. . . consisting of. . . A large and commodious house with four rooms below stairs and eight above, with two large '''porticoes'''—a new smoke house, a new [[icehouse|ice house.]]”
  
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: "The water-works of Philadelphia are the most extensive of their kind of any in America. . . . The water is discharged into a circular aqueduct, extending along Chestnut and Broad streets, into the middle of Market-street, in the centre square. . . . The building in the centre square, is a square of sixty feet, with a Doric '''portico''' on the east and west fronts. From its centre rises a circular tower, forty feet in diameter. It is covered by a dome. The tower contains the engine and reservoir . . . large enough to contain 20,000 gallons, all the chimnies of the house, which form a marble pedestal, on the summit. The shafts of the [[column]]s of the '''porticos''', consist each of one solid block of marble, 14 feet 9 inches in length, and two feet nine inches in diameter, at the base."[See Fig. 3]
 
  
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*Silliman, Benjamin, 1824, describing Monte Video, property of Daniel Wadsworth, Avon, CT (1824: 12)<ref>Benjamin Silliman, ''Remarks Made on a Short Tour between Hartford and Quebec, in the Autumn of 1819'' (New Haven, CT: S. Converse, 1824), [https://www.zotero.org/groups/54737/items/itemKey/B5VWTWM5 view on Zotero].</ref>
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:“To the west, the [[lawn]] rises gradually from the water, until it reaches the '''portico''' of the house, near the brow of the mountain, beyond which, the western valley is again seen.”
  
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[[File:0051.jpg|thumb|Fig. 9, [[William Strickland]], "The [[Woodlands]]", 1809]]
 
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* [[Charles Drayton|Drayton, Charles]], November 2, 1806, describing the [[Woodlands]], seat of [[William Hamilton]], near Philadelphia, Pa. (Drayton Hall, Charles Drayton Diaries, 1784-1820, typescript)
 
  
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: "The Garden consists of a large verdant [[lawn]] surrounded by a belt or [[walk]], & [[shrubbery]] for some distance. the outer side of the [[walk]] is adorned here & there, by scattered forest trees, thick & thin. It is bounded, partly as is described&mdash;partly by the Schylkill [''sic''] & a creek exhibiting a Mill & where it is scarcely noticed, by a common post and rail. The [[walk]] is said to be a mile long&mdash;perhaps it is something less. one is led in to the garden from the '''portico''', to the east and lefthand. or from the park, by a small gate contiguous to the house. traversing this walk, one sees many beauties of landscape&mdash;also a fine statue, symbol of Winter & age." [Fig. 9]
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*Ticknor, George, December 16, 1824, in a letter to William H. Prescott, describing Montpelier, [[plantation]] of James Madison, Montpelier Station, VA (quoted in Jones 1957: 7)<ref name=”Jones_1957”>Katharine M. Jones, ''The Plantation South'' (New York: Bobbs-Merrill, 1957), [https://www.zotero.org/groups/54737/items/itemKey/AT62T7KC/ view on Zotero].</ref>
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:“We were received with a good deal of dignity and much cordiality, by Mr. and Mrs. Madison, in the '''portico''', and immediately placed at ease.”
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*Douglass, Frederick, 1825, describing [[Wye House]], estate of Col. Edward Lloyd, Talbot County, MD (1855; repr., 1987: 47) <ref>Frederick Douglass, ''My Bondage and My Freedom'', ed. William L. Andrews (1855; repr., Urbana, IL: University of Illinois Press, 1987), [https://www.zotero.org/groups/54737/items/itemKey/Q764CVCK view on Zotero].</ref>
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:“The great house itself was a large, white, wooden building, with wings on three sides of it. In front, a large '''portico''', extending the entire length of the building, and supported by a long range of [[column]]s, gave to the whole establishment an air of solemn grandeur.”
  
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* [[William Dickinson Martin|Martin, William Dickinson]], May 20, 1809, describing Philadelphia, Pa. (CWF)
 
  
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: "The building in Centre Square, is Sixty feet in every direction; having a Doric '''portico''' in front, to the East & West."
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*Smith, Margaret Bayard, August 2, 1828, describing the University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA (1906: 226)<ref name=”Smith_1906”>Margaret Bayard Smith, ''The First Forty Years of Washington Society'', ed. Gaillard Hunt (New York: Charles Scribner’s, 1906), [https://www.zotero.org/groups/54737/items/itemKey/FTDFHRFH view on Zotero].</ref>
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:“The rotunda is in form and proportioned like the Pantheon at Rome. It has a noble '''portico''',— the [[pillar]]s, cornice, &c of the Corinthian.”
  
  
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* [[Sir Augustus John Foster|Foster, Sir Augustus John]], 1812, describing [[Monticello]], [[plantation]] of [[Thomas Jefferson]], Charlottesville, Va. (1954: 144) <ref>Sir Augustus John Foster, ''Jeffersonian America: Notes on the United States of America Collected in the Years 1805-1806-1807 and 1811-1812'', ed. by Richard Beale Davis (San Marino, Calif.: Huntington Library, 1954) [https://www.zotero.org/groups/54737/items/itemKey/7FU8NDF4 view on Zotero]</ref>
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[[File:0646.jpg|thumb|Fig. 9, Anonymous, “Montpelier, VA, the Seat of the late James Madison,” 1835.]]
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*<div id="Smith"></div>Smith, Margaret Bayard, August 17, 1828, describing Montpelier, plantation of James Madison, Montpelier Station, VA (1906: 233, 235–36)<ref name=”Smith_1906”></ref>
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:“We were at first conducted into the Drawing room, which opens on the back '''Portico''' and thus commands a view through the whole house, which is surrounded with an extensive [[lawn]], as green as in spring; the [[lawn]] is enclosed with fine trees, chiefly forest, but interspersed with weeping willows and other ornamental trees, all of most luxuriant growth and vivid verdure. It was a beautiful scene! . . . After dinner, we all walked in the '''Portico''', (or [[piazza]], which is 60 feet long, supported on six lofty [[pillar]]s) until twilight.” [Fig. 9] [[#Smith_cite|back up to History]]
  
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: "The house has two '''porticoes''' of the Doric order, though one of them was not quite completed, and the pediment had in the meanwhile to be supported on the stems of four tulip trees, which are really, when well grown, as beautiful as the fluted shafts of Corinthian [[pillar]]s. They front north and south."
 
  
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[[File:0990.jpg|thumb|Fig. 10, Thomas Birch, ''Southeast View of “Sedgeley Park,” the Country Seat of James Cowles Fisher, Esq.'', c. 1819.]]
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*Anonymous, June 1829, describing Sedgeley, seat of James C. Fisher, near Philadelphia , PA (''Casket'' 4: 265)<ref>Anonymous, “Sedgeley Park, the Seat of James C. Fisher, Esq.,” ''Casket, or Flowers of Literature, Wit & Sentiment'' 4, no. 6 (June 1829): 265, [https://www.zotero.org/groups/54737/keywords_in_early_american_landscape_design/items/itemKey/8Q67BD4S view on Zotero].</ref>
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:“The mansion was designed and erected under the superintendance of the late [[Benjamin_Henry_Latrobe|Mr. Latrobe]], and has been much admired for its architectural beauty. The style is Gothic, with a '''portico''' front and rear, supported by eight [[column]]s each. It presents a length of seventy-five feet, and is well adapted in the arrangement of the interior for a gentleman’s residence.” [Fig. 10]
  
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* <div id="Warden"></div>[[David Bailie Warden|Warden, David Bailie]], 1816, describing [[Riversdale]], estate of George and Rosalie Stier Calvert, Prince George's County, Md. (p. 156)<ref name="Warden_1816">Warden, David Bailie. 1816. ''A Chronographical and Statistical Description of the District of Columbia''. Paris: Printed and sold by Smith. [https://www.zotero.org/groups/54737/items/itemKey/QF8TXC8D view on Zotero]</ref>[[#Warden_cite|back up to history]]
 
  
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: "The establishment of George Calvert, Esq. at Bladensburg, attracts attention. His mansion, consisting of two stories, seventy feet in length, and thirty-six in breadth, is admirably adapted to the American climate. On each side there is a large '''portico''', which shelters from the sun, rain, or snow."
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*<div id="Mason"></div>Mason, General John, c. 1830, describing Gunston Hall, seat of George Mason, Mason Neck, VA (quoted in Rowland 1964: 1:98)<ref>Kate Mason Rowland, ''The Life of George Mason: 1725–1792'', 2 vols. (New York: Russell and Russell, 1964), [https://www.zotero.org/groups/54737/items/itemKey/HTZXK292 view on Zotero].</ref>
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:“The south front looked to the river; from an elevated little '''portico''' on this front you descended directly into an extensive garden, touching the house on one side.” [[#Mason_cite|back up to History]]
  
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* Anonymous, September 30, 1820, describing in the ''Virginia Herald'' a property for rent in Culpeper County, Va. (CWF)
 
  
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: "I will sell my tavern establishment . . . consisting of . . . A large and commodious house with four rooms below stairs and eight above, with two large '''porticoes'''&mdash;a new smoke house, a new [[icehouse|ice house.]]"
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*Featherstonhaugh, George William, August 18 and 19 1837, describing Fort Hill, seat of John C. Calhoun, Clemson, SC (quoted in Jones 1957: 126)<ref name=”Jones_1957”></ref>
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:“After partaking of an excellent dinner we adjourned for the evening to the '''portico''', where with the aid of a guitar, accompanied by a pleasing voice, and some capital curds and cream, we prolonged a most agreeable conversazione until a late hour. . .
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<p></p>
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:“On our return to Fort Hill, the family again assembled in the [[portico]] to pass a most agreeable evening.”
  
  
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* [[Benjamin Silliman|Silliman, Benjamin]], 1824, describing [[Monte Video]], property of Daniel Wadsworth, Avon, Conn. (p. 12)<ref>Benjamin Silliman, ''Remarks Made on a Short Tour between Hartford and Quebec, in the Autumn of 1819'' (New Haven, Conn.: S. Converse, 1824), [https://www.zotero.org/groups/54737/items/itemKey/B5VWTWM5 view on Zotero].</ref>
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*Buckingham, James Silk, 1842, describing Red Sulphur Springs, VA (Colonial Williamburg Foundation)
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:“Behind the “Bachelor’s Row,” and on the upper part of the hill is an imposing edifice of brick, called “Society Hall.” It is built of two stories, with a fine '''portico''' of twelve feet wide, running the whole length of the front, and a [[terrace]] of twenty feet wide beyond this.”
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: "To the west, the [[lawn]] rises gradually from the water, until it reaches the '''portico''' of the house, near the brow of the mountain, beyond which, the western valley is again seen."
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*Anonymous, August 1848, describing [[Riversdale]], estate of George and Rosalie Stier Calvert, Prince George’s County, MD (''American Farmer'' 4: 53)<ref>Anonymous, “Visit to Riversdale,” ''American Farmer, and Spirit of Agricultural Journals of the Day'' 4, no. 2 (August 1848): 52–55, [https://www.zotero.org/groups/54737/keywords_in_early_american_landscape_design/items/itemKey/65GUICEQ/q/riversdale view on Zotero].</ref>
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:“The main building is 68 by about 50 feet, with an elegant '''Portico''' on its northern [front], and a [[piazza|Piaza]] [''sic''], running its entire length, on its southern front, each constructed with due regard to classic and architectural propriety.”
  
  
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* [[George Ticknor|Ticknor, George]], December 16, 1824, in a letter to William H. Prescott, describing [[Montpelier]], plantation of [[James Madison]], Montpelier Station, Va. (quoted in Jones 1957: 7)<ref name="Jones_1957">Katharine M. Jones, ''The Plantation South'' (New York: Bobbs-Merrill, 1957), [https://www.zotero.org/groups/54737/items/itemKey/AT62T7KC/ view on Zotero].</ref>
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*<div id="Miller"></div>Miller, Lewis, June 5, 1849, describing [[Mount Vernon]], plantation of George Washington, Fairfax County, VA (c. 1850: 108)<ref> Lewis Miller, ''Orbis Pictus: A Picturesque Album to the Ladies of York, Pennsylvania'' (Williamsburg, VA: Abby Aldrich Rockefeller Folk Art Center, Colonial Williamsburg Foundation, c. 1850), [https://www.zotero.org/groups/54737/items/itemKey/XNQR79ST\ view on Zotero].</ref>
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:“The mansion house itself appears venerable and convenient[.] A lofty '''portico''' ninety-six feet in length, Supported by Eight [[pillar]]s, has a pleasing effect when viewed from the water.” [[#Miller_cite|back up to History]]
  
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: "We were received with a good deal of dignity and much cordiality, by Mr. and Mrs. Madison, in the '''portico''', and immediately placed at ease."
 
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* [[Frederick Douglass|Douglass, Frederick]], 1825, describing Wye House, estate of Col. Edward Lloyd, Talbot County, Md. ([1855] 1987: 47) <ref>Frederick Douglass, ''My Bondage and My Freedom'', ed. by William L. Andrews (Urbana, Ill.: University of Illinois Press, 1987), [https://www.zotero.org/groups/54737/items/itemKey/Q764CVCK view on Zotero.]</ref>
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===Citations===
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*Dezallier d’Argenville, Antoine-Joseph, 1712, ''The Theory and Practice of Gardening'' (1712; repr., 1969: 72)<ref name=”Argenville_1712”>A.-J. (Antoine Joseph) Dézallier d’Argenville, ''The Theory and Practice of Gardening. . . '', trans. John James (London: Geo. James, 1712; repr., Farnborough, England: Gregg, 1969), [https://www.zotero.org/groups/54737/keywords_in_early_american_landscape_design/items/itemKey/RNT8ZVZ8 view on Zotero].</ref>
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:“A '''PORTICO'''. . . being the Entrance in Front of a [[Summerhouse|Summer-House]], Salon, or [[Arbor]] of Latticework, and is generally adorn'd with a handsome Cornice and Frontispiece, supported by Pilasters or Peers; or else it is a long Decoration of Architecture placed against a [[Wall]], or at the Entrance of a [[Wood]], where the Advances and Returns are but inconsiderable.</p>
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:“[[arbor|ARBORS]], Cabinets, and '''Porticos''' of Latticework, are commonly made use of to terminate a Garden in the City, and to shut out the Sight of [[Wall]]s, and other disagreeable Objects; this Kind of Decoration making a handsome Sight, and serving very well to conclude the [[Prospect]] of a principal [[Walk]].”
  
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: "The great house itself was a large, white, wooden building, with wings on three sides of it. In front, a large '''portico''', extending the entire length of the building, and supported by a long range of [[column]]s, gave to the whole establishment an air of solemn grandeur."
 
  
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[[Image:1715.jpg|thumb|Fig. 11, [[James Gibbs]], “The Plan, Upright and Section of a Building of the Dorick Order in the form of a [[Temple]],” in ''A Book of Architecture'' (1728), pl. 67.]]
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*[[James Gibbs|Gibbs, James]], 1728, ''A Book of Architecture'' (1728: n.p.)<ref>James Gibbs, ''A Book of Architecture, Containing Designs of Buildings and Ornaments'', (London: Printed for W. Innys et al., 1728), [https://www.zotero.org/groups/54737/items/itemKey/ZGUVPFG8 view on Zotero].</ref>
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:“The Plan, Upright and Section of a Building of the Dorick Order in the form of a [[Temple]], made for a Person of Quality, and proposed to have been placed in the Center of four [[Walk]]s; so that a '''Portico''' might front each [[Walk]].” [Fig. 11]
  
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* [[Margaret Bayard Smith|Smith, Margaret Bayard]], August 2, 1828, describing the University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Va. (1906: 226) <ref name="Smith_1906">Margaret Bayard Smith, ''The First Forty Years of Washington Society'', ed. by Gaillard Hunt (New York: Charles Scribner’s, 1906), [https://www.zotero.org/groups/54737/items/itemKey/FTDFHRFH view on Zotero].</ref>
 
  
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: "The rotunda is in form and proportioned like the Pantheon at Rome. It has a noble '''portico''',&mdash; the [[pillars]], cornice, &c of the Corinthian."
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*[[Ephraim Chambers|Chambers, Ephraim]], 1743, ''Cyclopaedia'' (1743: 2:n.p.)<ref name=”Chambers_1741-43”>[[Ephraim Chambers]], ''Cyclopaedia, or An Universal Dictionary of Arts and Sciences. . . '', 5th ed., 2 vols. (London: D. Midwinter et al., 1741–43), [https://www.zotero.org/groups/54737/items/itemKey/PTXK378N view on Zotero].</ref>
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:“[[Piazza|PIAZZA]], in building, popularly called ''piache'', an Italian name for a '''portico''', or covered [[walk]], supported by [[arch]]es. See '''PORTICO'''.
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<p></p>
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:“The word literally signifies a broad open place or [[square]]; whence it also became applied to the [[walk]]s or [[portico]]’s around them. . .
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<p></p>
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:“'''PORTICO''', in architecture, a kind of gallery on the ground; or a [[piazza]] encompassed with [[arch]]es supported by [[column]]s, where people walk under covert. See [[Piazza|PIAZZA]]. . .
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<p></p>
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:“'''PORTICO'''. . .
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<p></p>
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:“The roof is usually vaulted, sometimes flat. The ancients called it '''lacunar'''. See LACUNAR, VAULT, &c.
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<p></p>
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:“Though the word '''portico''' be derived from ''porta'', [[gate]], door; yet it is applied to any disposition of [[column]]s which form a gallery, without any immediate relation to doors or [[gate]]s.
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<p></p>
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:“The most celebrated [[portico]]’s of antiquity were those of Solomon’s [[temple]], which formed the atrium or court, and encompassed the sanctuary: that of Athens, built for the people to divert themselves in, and wherein the philosophers held their disputes and conversations; which occasioned the disciples of Zeno to be called stoics. . . .
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<p></p>
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:“Among the modern [[portico]]’s, the most celebrated is the [[piazza]] of St. Peter of the Vatican.—That of Covent-Garden, London, the work of Inigo Jones, is also much admired.”
  
  
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[[File:0646.jpg|thumb|right|Fig. 4, Anonymous, ''[[Montpelier]]'', 1835.]]
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*Johnson, Samuel, 1755, ''A Dictionary of the English Language'' (1755: 2:n.p.)<ref name=”Johnson_1755”>Samuel Johnson, Samuel, ''A Dictionary of the English Language: In Which the Words are Deduced from the Originals and Illustrated in the Different Significations by Examples from the Best Writers'', 2 vols. (London: W. Strahan for J. and P. Knapton, 1755), [https://www.zotero.org/groups/54737/items/itemKey/GE2JPJR3 view on Zotero].</ref>
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* <div id="Smith"></div>[[Margaret Bayard Smith|Smith, Margaret Bayard]], August 17, 1828, describing Montpelier, plantation of James Madison, Montpelier Station, Va. (1906: 233, 235-36)<ref name="Smith_1906"></ref> [[#Smith_cite|back up to history]]
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:“'''PO'RTICO'''. n.s. [''porticus'', Lat. ''portico'', Italian; ''portique'', Fr.] A covered [[walk]]; a [[piazza]].”
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: "We were at first conducted into the Drawing room, which opens on the back '''Portico''' and thus commands a view through the whole house, which is surrounded with an extensive [[lawn]], as green as in spring; the [[lawn]] is enclosed with fine trees, chiefly forest, but interspersed with weeping willows and other ornamental trees, all of most luxuriant growth and vivid verdure. It was a beautiful scene! . . . After dinner, we all walked in the '''Portico''', (or [[piazza]], which is 60 feet long, supported on six lofty [[pillar]]s) until twilight." [See Fig. 4]
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*Ware, Isaac, 1756, ''Complete Body of Architecture'' (1756: 31)<ref>Isaac Ware, ''A Complete Body of Architecture'' (London: T. Osborne and J. Shipton, 1756), [https://www.zotero.org/groups/54737/items/itemKey/2EK2USKV view on Zotero].</ref>
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:“'''PORTICO'''.
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<p></p>
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:“A place for walking under shelter, raised with [[arch]]es, in the manner of a gallery. The '''portico''' is usually vaulted, but it has sometimes a soffit, or ceiling. The '''portico''' is a [[piazza]] encompassed with [[arch]]es raised upon [[column]]s, and covered over head in any manner. The word seems to refer to the [[gate]] or entrance of some place, ''porta'' in Latin signifying a [[gate]]; but it is appropriated to a disposition of [[column]]s, forming this kind of gallery, and has no relation to the openings.”
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*Salmon, William, 1762, ''Palladio Londinensis'' (1762: n.p.)<ref>William Salmon, ''Palladio Londinensis, or The London Art of Building: In Three Parts. . . with Fifty-Four Copper Plates, to Which Is Annexed, The Builder’s Dictionary'', ed. E. Hoppus, 6th ed. (London: Printed for C. Hitch et al., 1762), [https://www.zotero.org/groups/54737/items/itemKey/IEIQ5QGM view on Zotero].</ref>
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:“[[Piazza]], in Architecture, commonly called ''Piache'', an ''Italian'' Name for a '''Portico'''; it signifies a broad open Place or [[Square]], whence it became applied to [[Walk]]s or '''Porticos''' of [[Pillar]]s around them, like those of ''Covent Garden'', the ''Royal Exchange'', &c.”
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* Anonymous, June 1829, describing [[Sedgeley]], seat of [[James C. Fisher]], near Philadelphia, Pa. (''The Casket'' 4: 265)
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*Sheridan, Thomas, 1789, ''A Complete Dictionary of the English Language'' (1789: n.p.)<ref>Thomas A. Sheridan, ''A Complete Dictionary of the English Language, Carefully Revised and Corrected by John Andrews. . . '', 5th ed. (Philadelphia: William Young, 1789), [https://www.zotero.org/groups/54737/items/itemKey/T5GU4CBQ view on Zotero].</ref>
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:“'''PORTICO''', pa'r-ty-ko. s. A covered [[walk]], a [[piazza]].”
  
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: "The mansion was designed and erected under the superintendance of the late Mr. Latrobe, and has been much admired for its architectural beauty. The style is Gothic, with a '''portico''' front and rear, supported by eight [[column]]s each. It presents a length of seventy-five feet, and is well adapted in the arrangement of the interior for a gentleman's residence." [See Fig. 7]
 
  
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*Marshall, William, 1803, ''On Planting and Rural Ornament'' (1803: 1:266)<ref>William Marshall, ''On Planting and Rural Ornament: A Practical Treatise . . .'', 2 vols. (London: G. and W. Nicol, G. and J. Robinson, T. Cadell, and W. Davies, 1803), [https://www.zotero.org/groups/54737/items/itemKey/K48D75JJ view on Zotero].</ref>
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:“IN extensive grounds, RETREATS, more especially in the remoter parts, are in a degree requisite; and, if they be seen, they ought to harmonize with the [[view]]s in which they appear; and, of course, the more polished the scene, the more ornamental should be the Retreat,—whether it be the Room, the '''Portico''', or the more simple [[Alcove]].”
  
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* <div id="Mason"></div>[[General John Mason|Mason, General John]], c. 1830, describing [[Gunston Hall]], [[seat]] of [[George Mason]], Mason Neck, Va. (quoted in Rowland 1964: 1:98)<ref>Rowland, Kate Mason. 1964. ''The Life of George Mason: 1725-1792'', 2 vols. (New York: Russell and Russell, 1964), [https://www.zotero.org/groups/54737/items/itemKey/HTZXK292 view on Zotero].</ref>[[#Mason_cite|back up to history]] 
 
  
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: "The south front looked to the river; from an elevated little '''portico''' on this front you descended directly into an extensive garden, touching the house on one side."
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*[[Noah Webster|Webster, Noah]], 1828, ''An American Dictionary of the English Language'' (1828: 2:n.p.)<ref name=”Webster_1828”>Noah Webster, ''An American Dictionary of the English Language'', 2 vols. (New York: S. Converse, 1828), [https://www.zotero.org/groups/54737/items/itemKey/N7BSU467 view on Zotero].</ref>
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:“'''PORTICO''', n. [It. ''portico''; L. ''porticu''s, from ''porta'' or ''portus''.]
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<p></p>
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:“In architecture, a kind of gallery on the ground, or a [[piazza]] encompassed with [[arch]]es supported by [[column]]s; a covered [[walk]]. The roof is sometimes flat; sometimes vaulted. ''Encyc''.”
  
  
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* [[George William Featherstonhaugh|Featherstonhaugh, George William]], August 18 and 19 1837, describing [[Fort Hill]], seat of John C. Calhoun, Clemson, S.C. (quoted in Jones 1957: 126)<ref name="Jones_1957"></ref>
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*[[Noah Webster|Webster, Noah]], 1848, ''An American Dictionary of the English Language'' (1848: 848)<ref>Noah Webster, ''An American Dictionary of the English Language. . . Revised and Enlarged by Chauncey A. Goodrich'', (Springfield, MA: George and Charles Merriam, 1848), [https://www.zotero.org/groups/54737/items/itemKey/EBZ5Z7ET view on Zotero]. </ref>
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:“'''POR'TI-CO''', n. [It. ''portico''; L. ''porticus'', from ''porta'' or ''portus''.]
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: "After partaking of an excellent dinner we adjourned for the evening to the '''portico''', where with the aid of a guitar, accompanied by a pleasing voice, and some capital curds and cream, we prolonged a most agreeable conversazione until a late hour. . . .  
 
 
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: "On our return to Fort Hill, the family again assembled in the portico to pass a most agreeable evening."
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:“In ''architecture, originally'', a colonnade or covered ambulatory; but at present, a covered space, inclosed by [[column]]s at the entrance of a building. P. Cyc.”
  
  
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* [[James Silk Buckingham|Buckingham, James Silk]], 1842, describing Red Sulphur Springs, Va. (CWF)  
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*<div id="Downing2"></div>[[Andrew Jackson Downing|Downing, Andrew Jackson]], 1849, ''A Treatise on the Theory and Practice of Landscape Gardening'' (1849: 376)<ref name=”Downing_1849”>Alexander Jackson Downing, ''A Treatise on the Theory and Practice of Landscape Gardening, Adapted to North America. . .'', 4th ed. (New York: G. P. Putnam, 1849), [https://www.zotero.org/groups/54737/items/itemKey/5M4S2D64 view on Zotero].</ref>
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:“In this country no architectural feature is more plainly expressive of purpose in our dwelling-houses than the [[veranda|''veranda'']], or [[piazza]]. The unclouded splendor and fierce heat of our summer sun, render this very general appendage a source of real comfort and enjoyment; and the long [[veranda]] round many of our country residences stands instead of the paved [[terrace]]s of the English mansions as the place for [[promenade]]; while during the warmer portions of the season, half of the days or evenings are there passed in the enjoyment of the cool breezes, secure under low roofs supported by the open colonnade, from the solar rays, or the dews of night. . .
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<p></p>
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:“The various projections and irregularities, caused by [[veranda]]s, '''porticoes''', etc., serve to connect the otherwise square masses of building, by gradual transition with the ground about it.” [[#Downing2_cite|back up to History]]
  
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: "Behind the "Bachelor's Row," and on the upper part of the hill is an imposing edifice of brick, called "Society Hall." It is built of two stories, with a fine '''portico''' of twelve feet wide, running the whole length of the front, and a terrace of twenty feet wide beyond this."
 
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* Anonymous, August 1848, describing [[Riversdale]], estate of George and Rosalie Stier Calvert, Prince George's County, Md. (''American Farmer'' 4: 53)  
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[[Image:0780.jpg|thumb|Fig. 12, [[Frances Palmer]], East Front Elevation of Italian Bracketed Villa, in William H. Ranlett, ''The Architect'' (1851), vol. 2, pl. 9, top.]]
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*<div id="Ranlett"></div>Ranlett, William H., 1851, ''The Architect'' (1851; repr., 1976: 2:14)<ref>William H. Ranlett, ''The Architect'', 2 vols. (1849–51; repr., New York: Da Capo, 1976), [https://www.zotero.org/groups/54737/items/itemKey/QGQPCB5J/ view on Zotero].</ref>
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:“The design given in this part of the Architect, number XXVI., is the plan of a Villa in the Anglo-Italian style, now in process of erection on the south side of Lake Ontario, in the city of Oswego. . .
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:“On the east side are two bay windows, one on each side of the principal entrance, which has a '''portico''' supported by fluted Corinthian [[column]]s. On the south is a flat-roofed [[piazza]], with open balustrade railing, supported by Corinthian [[column]]s.” [Fig. 12] [[#Ranlett_cite|back up to History]]
  
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: "The main building is 68 by about 50 feet, with an elegant '''Portico''' on its northern [front], and a [[piazza|Piaza]] [''sic''], running its entire length, on its southern front, each constructed with due regard to classic and architectural propriety."
 
  
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* <div id="Miller"></div>[[Lewis Miller|Miller, Lewis]], June 5, 1849, describing [[Mount Vernon]], plantation of [[George Washington]], Fairfax County, Va. (c. 1850: 108) <ref> Lewis Miller, ''Orbis Pictus: A Picturesque Album to the Ladies of York, Pennsylvania'', (Williamsburg, Va: Abby Aldrich Rockefeller Folk Art Center, Colonial Williamsburg Foundation, c. 1850), [https://www.zotero.org/groups/54737/items/itemKey/XNQR79ST\ view on Zotero.] </ref>[[#Miller_cite|back up to history]]
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==Images==
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=== Inscribed ===
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: "The mansion house itself appears venerable and convenient[.] A lofty '''portico''' ninety-six feet in length, Supported by Eight [[pillar]]s, has a pleasing effect when viewed from the water."
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Image:1056.jpg|Michael van der Gucht, “Of '''Porticos''', Bowers, and Cabinets of [[Arbor]]-work”, in Antoine-Joseph Dezallier d’Argenville, ''The Theory and Practice of Gardening'' (1712), pl. E opp. 71.
  
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Image:1715.jpg|[[James Gibbs]], “The Plan, Upright and Section of a Building of the Dorick Order in the form of a [[Temple]],” in ''A Book of Architecture'' (1728), pl. 67.
  
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===Citations===
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Image:1735.jpg|Batty and Thomas Langley, “Gothick [''sic''] '''Portico''',” in ''Gothic Architecture'' (1747), pl. 32.
  
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* [[A.-J D&eacute;zallier d’Argenville|[D&eacute;zallier d’Argenville, A.-J.]]], 1712, ''The Theory and Practice of Gardening'' ([1712] 1969: 72) <ref name="Argenville_1712">[A.-J. (Antoine Joseph) Dézallier d'Argenville], ''The Theory and Practice of Gardening; wherein is fully handled all that relates to fine gardens, . . . containing divers plans, and general dispositions of gardens; . . .'' (English-language edition prepared by John James from the 1709 French original and printed in London by Geo. James, 1712. Reprint, Farnborough, England: Gregg, 1969), [https://www.zotero.org/groups/54737/items/itemKey/RNT8ZVZ87 view on Zotero.]</ref>
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Image:0058.jpg|[[Benjamin Henry Latrobe]], Houses and a church. Garden plan with outbuildings, 1795–99. “'''Portico'''” is inscribed near the bottom of the plan.
  
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: "A '''PORTICO''' . . . being the Entrance in Front of a Summer-House, Salon, or [[Arbor]] of Latticework, and is generally adorn'd with a handsome Cornice and Frontispiece, supported by Pilasters or Peers; or else it is a long Decoration of Architecture placed against a [[Wall]], or at the Entrance of a Wood, where the Advances and Returns are but inconsiderable.
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Image:0087.jpg|[[Benjamin Henry Latrobe]], ''[[View]] of [[Mount Vernon]] looking to the North'', July 17, 1796. "The '''portico''' faces to the East."
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<p></p>
 
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: "[[ARBORS]], Cabinets, and '''Porticos''' of Latticework, are commonly made use of to terminate a Garden in the City, and to shut out the Sight of Walls, and other disagreeable Objects; this Kind of Decoration making a handsome Sight, and serving very well to conclude the [[Prospect]] of a principal [[Walk]]."  
 
  
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Image:0610.jpg|[[Benjamin Henry Latrobe]], “[[View]] of the East front of the President’s House, with the additions of the North & South '''Porticos''',” 1807.
  
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[[File:1715.jpg|thumb|Fig. 10, [[James Gibbs]], "The Plan, Upright and Section of a Building of the Dorick Order in the form of a Temple", 1728.]]
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Image:1237.jpg|[[Benjamin Henry Latrobe]], “General Plan of a Marine Asylum and Hospital proposed to be built at Washington,” 1812. “'''Portico'''” is inscribed at the Western entrance.  
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* [[James Gibbs|Gibbs, James]], 1728, ''A Book of Architecture'' (n.p.) <ref>James Gibbs, ''A Book of Architecture, Containing Designs of Buildings and Ornaments'', (London: Printed for W. Innys et al., 1728), [https://www.zotero.org/groups/54737/items/itemKey/ZGUVPFG8 view on Zotero.]</ref>
 
  
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: "The Plan, Upright and Section of a Building of the Dorick Order in the form of a [[Temple]], made for a Person of Quality, and proposed to have been placed in the Center of four [[Walk]]s; so that a '''Portico''' might front each [[Walk]]." [Fig. 10]
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Image:1221.jpg|[[Robert Mills]], Plan of wings and courtyards, South Carolina Insane Asylum, 1821, in John M. Bryan, ed., ''Robert Mills, Architect'' (1989), pl. 10. The '''portico''' is indicated at the botton center of the plan.  
  
  
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* [[Ephraim Chambers|Chambers, Ephraim]], 1741-43, ''Cyclopaedia'' (2:n.p.)<ref name="Chambers_1741-43">[[Ephraim Chambers]], ''Cyclopaedia, or An Universal Dictionary of Arts and Sciences. . . .'',5th ed., 2 vols. (London: D. Midwinter et al., 1741-43), [https://www.zotero.org/groups/54737/items/itemKey/PTXK378N view on Zotero.]</ref>  
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Image:1332.jpg|[[J. C. Loudon]], “[[Porch]]es and '''Porticoes''',” in ''An Encyclopaedia of Gardening'', 4th ed. (1826), 356, fig. 330.
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Image:0580.jpg|Lewis Miller, “[[Mount Vernon]]” [detail], in ''Orbis Pictus'' (c. 1849), 108.
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</gallery>
  
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: "[[PIAZZA]], in building, popularly called ''piache'', an Italian name for a '''portico''', or covered [[walk]], supported by [[arch]]es. See '''PORTICO'''.
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=== Associated ===
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: "The word literally signifies a broad open place or square; whence it also became applied to the [[walk]]s or '''portico's''' around them. . . .
 
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: "'''PORTICO''', in architecture, a kind of gallery on the ground; or a [[piazza]] encompassed with [[arch]]es supported by [[column]]s, where people walk under covert. See [[PIAZZA]]. . . .
 
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: "'''PORTICO'''....
 
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: "The roof is usually vaulted, sometimes flat. The ancients called it '''lacunar'''. See LACUNAR, VAULT, &c.
 
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: "Though the word '''portico''' be derived from ''porta'', gate, door; yet it is applied to any disposition of [[column]]s which form a gallery, without any immediate relation to doors or gates.
 
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<p></p>
 
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: "The most celebrated '''portico's''' of antiquity were those of Solomon's [[temple]], which formed the atrium or court, and encompassed the sanctuary: that of Athens, built for the people to divert themselves in, and wherein the philosophers held their disputes and conversations; which occasioned the disciples of Zeno to be called stoics....
 
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: "Among the modern '''portico's''', the most celebrated is the [[piazza]] of St. Peter of the Vatican.&mdash; That of Covent-Garden, London, the work of Inigo Jones, is also much admired."
 
  
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File:2162.jpg|[[Thomas Jefferson]], ''[[Monticello]]: 1st version (elevation)'', probably before March 1771.
  
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* [[Samuel Johnson|Johnson, Samuel]], 1755, ''A Dictionary of the English Language'' (2:n.p.) <ref name="Johnson_1755">Samuel Johnson, Samuel, ''A Dictionary of the English Language: In Which the Words are Deduced from the Originals and Illustrated in the Different Significations by Examples from the Best Writers'', 2 vols. (London: W. Strahan for J. and P. Knapton, 1755) [https://www.zotero.org/groups/54737/items/itemKey/GE2JPJR3 view on Zotero.]</ref>
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File:0826.jpg|James Peller Malcolm, [[The Woodlands]] From the [[Bridge]] at Gray’s Ferry, c. 1792, in Beth C. Wees and Medill H. Harvey, ''Early American Silver in the Metropolitan Museum of Art'' (2013), 259.  
  
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: "'''PO'RTICO'''. n.s. [''porticus'', Lat. ''portico'', Italian; ''portique'', Fr.] A covered [[walk]]; a [[piazza]]."
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Image:0089.jpg|[[Benjamin Henry Latrobe]], “[[View]] of [[Mount Vernon]] looking towards the South,” 1796.
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* [[Isaac Ware|Ware, Isaac]], 1756, ''Complete Body of Architecture'' (p. 31) <ref>Isaac Ware, ''A Complete Body of Architecture'' (London: T. Osborne and J. Shipton, 1756), [https://www.zotero.org/groups/54737/items/itemKey/2EK2USKV view on Zotero.]</ref>
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Image:0208.jpg|Francis Guy, ''[[Mount]] Deposit from the North'', 1805.
  
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: "'''PORTICO'''.  
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Image:0320.jpg|William Russell Birch, “York-Island, with a [[View]] of the [[Seat]]s of M.<sup>r</sup> A. Gracie, M.<sup>r</sup> Church &c.,” in ''The Country [[Seat]]s of the United States of North America'' (1808), pl. 17.
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: "A place for walking under shelter, raised with arches, in the manner of a gallery. The '''portico''' is usually vaulted, but it has sometimes a soffit, or ceiling. The '''portico''' is a [[piazza]] encompassed with [[arch]]es raised upon [[column]]s, and covered over head in any manner. The word seems to refer to the gate or entrance of some place, ''porta'' in Latin signifying a gate; but it is appropriated to a disposition of [[column]]s, forming this kind of gallery, and has no relation to the openings."
 
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* [[William Salmon|Salmon, William]], 1762, ''Palladio Londinensis'' (n.p.)<ref>William Salmon, ''Palladio Londinensis, or The London Art of Building: In Three Parts . . . with Fifty-Four Copper Plates, to Which Is Annexed, The Builder’s Dictionary'', ed. by E. Hoppus, 6th edn (London: Printed for C. Hitch et al, 1762), [https://www.zotero.org/groups/54737/items/itemKey/IEIQ5QGM view on Zotero.]</ref>
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Image:0051.jpg|William Strickland, “[[The Woodlands]],” 1809, in ''Casket'' 5, no. 10 (October 1830): pl. opp. 432.
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: "[[Piazza]], in Architecture, commonly called ''Piache'', an ''Italian'' Name for a '''Portico'''; it signifies a broad open Place or Square, whence it became applied to [[Walk]]s or '''Porticos''' of [[Pillar]]s around them, like those of ''Covent Garden'', the ''Royal Exchange'', &c."
 
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* [[Thomas Sheridan|Sheridan, Thomas]], 1789, ''A Complete Dictionary of the English Language'' (n.p.)<ref>Thomas A. Sheridan, ''A Complete Dictionary of the English Language, Carefully Revised and Corrected by John Andrews....'', 5th ed. (Philadelphia: William Young, 1789), [https://www.zotero.org/groups/54737/items/itemKey/T5GU4CBQ view on Zotero.]</ref>
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Image:0551.jpg|John Lewis Krimmel, ''Fourth of July in Centre [[Square]]'', 1811–12.
  
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: "'''PORTICO''', pa'r-ty-ko. s. A covered [[walk]], a [[piazza]]."
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Image:1220.jpg|[[Robert Mills]], Front elevation, South Carolina Insane Asylum, c. 1820, in John M. Bryan, ed. ''Robert Mills, Architect'' (1989), pl. 7.
  
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File:1051.jpg|Daniel Wadsworth, “Monte Video, Approach to the House,” in Benjamin Silliman, ''Remarks Made on a Short Tour between Hartford and Quebec, in the Autumn of 1819'' (1824), pl. opp. 16.
  
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* [[William Marshall|Marshall, William]], 1803, ''On Planting and Rural Ornament'' (1:266)  <ref>William Marshall, ''On Planting and Rural Ornament: A Practical Treatise. . . .'', 2 vols. (London: G. and W. Nicol, G. and J. Robinson, T. Cadell, and W. Davies, 1803), [https://www.zotero.org/groups/54737/items/itemKey/K48D75JJ view on Zotero.]</ref>
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Image:0079.jpg|Jane Braddick Peticolas, ''[[View]] of West Front of [[Monticello]] and Garden'', 1825.
  
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: "IN extensive grounds, RETREATS, more especially in the remoter parts, are in a degree requisite; and, if they be seen, they ought to harmonize with the views in which they appear; and, of course, the more polished the scene, the more ornamental should be the Retreat,&mdash;whether it be the Room, the '''Portico''', or the more simple [[Alcove]]."
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File:0646.jpg|Anonymous, “Montpelier, Va., the [[Seat]] of the late James Madison,” 1835.
  
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Image:0549.jpg|Victor De Grailly, ''[[Mount Vernon]]'', c. 1840—50.
  
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[[File:1332.jpg|thumb|Fig. 11, [[J. C. Loudon]], "Porches and Porticoes", in J.C. Loudon, ''An Encyclopaedia of gardening'', (1826), p. 356, fig. 330.]]
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Image:0778.jpg|[[Frances Palmer]], “Italian Bracketed Villa,” in William H. Ranlett, ''The Architect'' (1851), vol. 2, pl. 7.
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* [[J. C. Loudon|Loudon, J. C.]], 1826, ''An Encyclopaedia of Gardening'' (p. 356)<ref>J. C. (John Claudius) Loudon, ''An Encyclopaedia of Gardening; Comprising the Theory and Practice of Horticulture, Floriculture, Arboriculture, and Landscape-Gardening'', 4th edn (London: Longman et al, 1826), [https://www.zotero.org/groups/54737/items/itemKey/KNKTCA4W view on Zotero.]</ref>
 
  
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: "1809. [[Porch]]es and '''porticoes''' . . . are sometimes employed as decorative marks to the entrances of scenes; and sometimes merely as roofs to shelter seats or resting benches." [See Fig. 11]
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Image:0780.jpg|[[Frances Palmer]], East Front Elevation of Italian Bracketed Villa, in William H. Ranlett, ''The Architect'' (1851), vol. 2, pl. 9, top.
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=== Attributed ===
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* [[Noah Webster|Webster, Noah]], 1828, ''An American Dictionary of the English Language'' (n.p.) <ref name="Webster_1828">Noah Webster, ''An American Dictionary of the English Language'', vol. 1 (New York: S. Converse, 1828), [https://www.zotero.org/groups/54737/items/itemKey/N7BSU467 view on Zotero.]</ref>
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File:0190.jpg|[[Charles Willson Peale]], ''Charles Carroll'', c. 1770.
  
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: "'''PORTICO''', n. [It. ''portico''; L. ''porticu''s, from ''porta'' or ''portus''.]
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Image:0021.jpg|Cornelius Tiebout, ''A [[View]] of the present [[Seat]] of His Excel. the Vice President of the United States'', 1790.
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<p></p>
 
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: "In architecture, a kind of gallery on the ground, or a [[piazza]] encompassed with [[arch]]es supported by [[column]]s; a covered [[walk]]. The roof is sometimes flat; sometimes vaulted. ''Encyc''."
 
  
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File:1229.jpg|[[Benjamin Henry Latrobe]], Houses and a church. Garden [[temple]] elevations and floor plan, c. 1795–99.
  
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* [[Noah Webster|Webster, Noah]] 1848, ''An American Dictionary of the English Language'' (p. 848)<ref>Noah Webster, ''An American Dictionary of the English Language... Revised and Enlarged by Chauncey A. Goodrich....'', (Springfield, Mass.: George and Charles Merriam, 1848), [https://www.zotero.org/groups/54737/items/itemKey/EBZ5Z7ET| view on Zotero.] </ref>
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File:1230.jpg|[[Benjamin Henry Latrobe]], Houses and a church. Side elevation and basement floor plan, c. 1795–99.
  
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: "'''POR'TI-CO''', n. [It. ''portico''; L. ''porticus'', from ''porta'' or ''portus''.]
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File:1231.jpg|[[Benjamin Henry Latrobe]], Houses and a church. Lodge—Sections showing interior elevation, c. 1795–99.
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<p></p>
 
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: "In ''architecture, originally'', a colonnade or covered ambulatory; but at present, a covered space, inclosed by [[column]]s at the entrance of a building. P. Cyc."
 
  
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File:0083.jpg|[[Benjamin Henry Latrobe]], ''Sedgeley'', 1799.
  
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* <div id="Downing2"></div>[[A. J. Downing|Downing, A. J.]], 1849, ''A Treatise on the Theory and Practice of Landscape Gardening'' (p. 376) <ref name="Downing_1849">A. J. Downing, ''A Treatise on the Theory and Practice of Landscape Gardening, Adapted to North America; with a view to the improvement of country residences. Comprising historical notices and general principles of the art, directions for laying out grounds and arranging plantations, the description and cultivation of hardy trees, decorative accompaniments to the house and grounds, the formation of pieces of artificial water, flower gardens, etc.: with remarks on rural architecture'', 4th ed. (New York: G. P. Putnam, 1849), [https://www.zotero.org/groups/54737/items/itemKey/5M4S2D64 view on Zotero.]</ref> [[#Downing2_cite|back up to history]]
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Image:0317.jpg|William Russell Birch, ''Montebello—The [[Seat]] of General Smith'', c. 1808.
  
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: "In this country no architectural feature is more plainly expressive of purpose in our dwelling-houses than the [[veranda|''veranda'']], or [[piazza]]. The unclouded splendor and fierce heat of our summer sun, render this very general appendage a source of real comfort and enjoyment; and the long [[veranda]] round many of our country residences stands instead of the paved [[terrace]]s of the English mansions as the place for [[promenade]]; while during the warmer portions of the season, half of the days or evenings are there passed in the enjoyment of the cool breezes, secure under low roofs supported by the open colonnade, from the solar rays, or the dews of night. . . .
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Image:0318.jpg|William Russell Birch, “Montibello the [[seat]] of Genl. S. Smith Maryland,” 1808, in William Russell Birch and Emily Cooperman, ''The Country [[Seat]]s of the United States'' (2009), 67, pl. 13.
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: "The various projections and irregularities, caused by [[veranda]]s, '''porticoes''', etc., serve to connect the otherwise square masses of building, by gradual transition with the ground about it."
 
  
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Image:0321.jpg|William Russell Birch, “Mendenhall Ferry, Schuylkill, Pennsylvania,” 1808, in William Russell Birch and Emily Cooperman, ''The Country [[Seat]]s of the United States'' (2009), 77, pl. 18. '''Porticos''' can be seen on the two [[seat]]s on the bank.
  
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[[File:0780.jpg|thumb|Fig. 12, [[Frances Palmer]], "Principal Elevation" of a villa in the Anglo-Italian style at Oswefo N.Y., 1851.]]
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Image:0322.jpg|William Russell Birch, “China Retreat Pennsyl.<sup>a</sup> the [[Seat]] of M.<sup>r</sup> Manigault,” 1808, in William Russell Birch and Emily Cooperman, ''The Country [[Seat]]s of the United States'' (2009), 79, pl. 19.  
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* [[William H. Ranlett|Ranlett, William H.]], 1851, ''The Architect'' ([1851] 1976: 2:14) <ref>William H. Ranlett, ''The Architect'', 2 vols. (New York: Da Capo, 1976), [https://www.zotero.org/groups/54737/items/itemKey/QGQPCB5J/ view on Zotero.]</ref>
 
  
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: "The design given in this part of the Architect, number XXVI., is the plan of a Villa in the Anglo-Italian style, now in process of erection on the south side of Lake Ontario, in the city of Oswego. . . .
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Image:1152.jpg|Anonymous, ''The Lilacs'', Residence of Thomas Kidder [perspective rendering, front], c. 1810.
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: "On the east side are two bay windows, one on each side of the principal entrance, which has a '''portico''' supported by fluted Corinthian [[column]]s. On the south is a flat-roofed [[piazza]], with open balustrade railing, supported by Corinthian [[column]]s." [Fig. 12]
 
  
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==Images==
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Image:0103.jpg|Lewis and Goodwin (lithographers), after a drawing by Joseph Jacques Ramée, ''Union College. Schenectady, N.Y.'', 1815.
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File:1056.jpg|[[Michael van der Gucht]], ''A Large Portico at the Entrance of Arbor-Work, A Cabinet of Arbor Work open at top, and A Salon for an Entrance of an Arbor'', 1712.
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File:0404.jpg|[[Benjamin Henry Latrobe]], “Elevation of the South front of the President’s house, copied from the design as proposed to be altered in 1807,” January 1817.
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File:1715.jpg|[[James Gibbs]], "The Plan, Upright and Section of a Building of the Dorick Order in the form of a [[Temple]]", 1728, in ''A Book of Architecture, containing designs of buildings and ornaments'' (1728), pl. 67.
 
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File:1448.jpg|[[Batty Langley]] and [[Thomas Langley]], ''Gothick [sic] Portico'', in ''Gothic Architecture, Improved by Rules and Proportions in many Ground Designs'' (1747), pl. 32.
 
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File:0087.jpg|[[Benjamin Henry Latrobe]], "View of [[Mount Vernon]] looking to the North," July 17, 1796.
 
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File:0610.jpg|[[Benjamin Henry Latrobe]], "View of the East front of the [[White House|President's House]], with the additions of the North & South Porticos", 1807.
 
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File:1237.jpg|[[Benjamin Henry Latrobe]], "General Plan of a Marine Asylum and Hospital proposed to be built at Washington", 1812. "Portico" is inscribed at the Western entrance.
 
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File:1221.jpg|[[Robert Mills]], Plan of wings and courtyards, South Carolina Insane Asylum, 1821, in John M. Bryan, ed., ''Robert Mills, Architect'' (1989), plate 10. "Portico" is inscribed near the bottom of the plan.
 
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File:1332.jpg|[[J. C. Loudon]], "Porches and Porticoes", in J.C. Loudon, ''An Encyclopaedia of gardening'', (1826), p. 356, fig. 330.
 
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File:0580.jpg|[[Lewis Miller]], "[[Mount Vernon]]", 1835.
 
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File:1227.jpg|[[Robert Mills]], Design for the Patent Office Wings, 1842, in Rhodri Windsor Liscombe, ''Altogether American: Robert Mills, Architect and Engineer, 1781-1855'' (1994), p. 232, fig. 86b.
 
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File:1225.jpg|[[Robert Mills]], "Projection of the Fire-Proof Buildings for the Navy & War Depts.," c. 1843, in John M. Bryan, ''Robert Mills: America's First Architect'' (2001), p. 249. "Portico" is inscribed on both the north and south entrance.  
 
  
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File:0826.jpg|[[James Peller Malcolm]], The [[Woodlands]] From the Bridge at Gray's Ferry, c. 1792, in Beth C. Wees and Medill H. Harvey, ''Early American Silver in the Metropolitan Museum of Art'' (2013), p. 259.
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File:0020.jpg|Mdme. Janika de Feriet, ''The [[Hermitage]]'', c. 1820.
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File:0341.jpg|George Isham Parkyns, Mount Vernon, 1795.
 
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File:0089.jpg|[[Benjamin Henry Latrobe]], "View of [[Mount Vernon]] looking towards the South", 1796.
 
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File:0710.jpg|[[J. Weiss]], ''Home of George Washington, "The Father of His Country"'', 1797.
 
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File:0345.jpg|Alexander Robertson (artist), Francis Jukes (engraver), "Mount Vernon in Virginia," 1800.
 
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File:1256.jpg|[[Robert Mills]],  West Elevation of the Final Version of Monticello, c. 1803.
 
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File:0344.jpg|[[George Ropes]], ''Mount Vernon'', 1806.
 
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File:0314.jpg|[[William Russell Birch]], "[[Mount Vernon]], Virginia, the [[Seat]] of the late [[George Washington|Genl. G. Washington]]", 1808.
 
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File:0051.jpg|[[William Strickland]], "The [[Woodlands]]", 1809.
 
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File:0838.jpg|[[Daniel Wadsworth]], ''Monte Video&mdash;near Avon'' [detail], c. 1810-1819, in Richard Saunders and Helen Raye, ''Daniel Wadsworth, Patron of the Arts. Hartford'' (1981), p. 56, pl. 16.
 
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File:0551.jpg|John Lewis Krimmel, ''Fourth of July in Centre Square'', 1811-12.
 
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File:1220.jpg|[[Robert Mills]], Front elevation, South Carolina Insane Asylum, c.1820, in John M. Bryan, ed. ''Robert Mills, Architect'' (1989), pl. 7.
 
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File:1051.jpg|[[Daniel Wadsworth]], "Monte Video, Approach to the House," in Benjamin Silliman, ''Remarks Made on a Short Tour between Hartford and Quebec, in the Autumn of 1819'' (1824), pl. opp. p. 16.
 
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File:0079.jpg|[[Jane Braddick]], ''View of West Front of [[Monticello]] and Garden'', 1825.
 
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File:0646.jpg|Anonymous, ''[[Montpelier]]'', 1835.
 
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File:0549.jpg|[[Victor De Grailly]], ''View of Mount Vernon'', c.1840–50.
 
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File:0550.jpg|[[Victor de Grailly]], ''Washington's Tomb at Mount Vernon'', c.1840-50.
 
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File:0328.jpg|Unknown, "Front View of the Mansion at Mount Vernon", in Franklin Knight ed., ''Letters on agriculture from His Excellency George Washington, president of the United States, to Arthur Young, Esq. F.R.S. and Sir John Sinclair, Bart., M.P with statistical tables and remarks, by Thomas Jefferson, Richard Peters, and other gentlemen, on the economy and management of farms in the United States'' (1847), opp. p.14.
 
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File:0329.jpg|Anonymous, A. Kollner (lithographer), "North West View of the Mansion of George Washington Mount Vernon," in Franklin Knight, ed., ''Letters on agriculture from His Excellency George Washington, president of the United States, to Arthur Young, Esq. F.R.S. and Sir John Sinclair, Bart., M.P with statistical tables and remarks, by Thomas Jefferson, Richard Peters, and other gentlemen, on the economy and management of farms in the United States'' (1847), opp. p.124.
 
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File:0778.jpg|[[Frances Palmer]], "Italian Bracketed Villa," in William H. Ranlett, ''The Architect'' (1851), vol. 2, pl. 7.
 
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File:0779.jpg|[[Frances Palmer]], South Front Elevation of Italian Bracketed Villa, in William H. Ranlett, ''The Architect'' (1851), vol. 2, pl. 9, design 26.
 
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File:0780.jpg|[[Frances Palmer]], "Principal Elevation" of a villa in the Anglo-Italian style at Oswefo N.Y., in William H. Ranlett, ''The Architect'' (1851), vol. 2, pl. 9, design 26.
 
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File:0334.jpg|Middleton, Strobridge & Co. (engraver), "Mount Vernon, the home of Washington," c. 1861.
 
  
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File:0025.jpg|Robert P. Smith, “''[[View]] of Washington'',” c. 1850.
  
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File:0190.jpg|[[Charles Willson Peale]], ''Charles Carroll'', c. 1770.
 
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File:0021.jpg|Cornelius Tiebout, "A View of the present Seat of His Excel. the Vice President of the United States", 1790.
 
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File:1229.jpg|[[Benjamin Henry Latrobe]], Houses and a church. Garden temple elevations and floor plan, c.1795-1799.
 
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File:1230.jpg|[[Benjamin Henry Latrobe]], Houses and a church. Side elevation and basement floor plan, c.1795-1799.
 
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File:1231.jpg|[[Benjamin Henry Latrobe]], Houses and a church. Lodge - Sections showing interior elevation, c.1795-1799.
 
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File:0083.jpg|[[Benjamin Henry Latrobe]], ''Sedgeley'', 1799.
 
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File:0404.jpg|[[Benjamin Henry Latrobe]], "Elevation of the South front of the President's house, copied from the design as proposed to be altered in 1807," January 1817.
 
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File:0990.jpg|[[Thomas Birch]],''Southeast View of Sedgeley Park'', c. 1819.
 
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File:0020.jpg|Mdme. Janika de Feriet, ''The Hermitage'', c. 1820.
 
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History

Fig. 1, William Russell Birch, “York-Island, with a View of the Seats of M.r A. Gracie, M.r Church &c.,” in The Country Seats of the United States of North America (1808), pl. 17.

Portico is one of several words (including piazza, porch, and veranda) used to describe covered walks or spaces supported by columns or piers and attached to, or to part of, a building. This architectural feature spoke to the interrelatedness of architecture and gardens, a relationship that grew out of the romantic interest in landscape characterizing the aesthetics of the 18th and 19th centuries. Two images exemplify the importance of these structures in creating and framing views of the garden and landscape. The first is a drawing of York Island, Long Island, by William Russell Birch (1808), who explained that the view was taken from the piazza, a place from which one could see “innumerable seats, spreading over an extensive country which glittered as the sun arose” [Fig. 1].[1] The second is from A. J. Downing’s book on wooden picturesque houses, The Architecture of Country Houses (1850) [Fig. 2]. Both illustrate views from the bracketed piazza, or veranda, as Downing preferred to call it, out to the distant prospect.

Fig. 2, Anonymous, “Bracketed Veranda from the inside,” in A. J. Downing, The Architecture of Country Houses (1850), 122, fig. 45.

Treatises often used these terms interchangeably, along with a few other less common words that were more or less synonymous. Downing and Alexander Jackson Davis used the term “umbrage” to refer to the same feature on a house, implying a place of shade; Downing used the term “pavilion” synonymously with “veranda”; and Mary Elizabeth Latrobe mentioned that in New Orleans the piazza was also known as the gallery.[2] Contrasting usage sometimes reveals distinctions. In his plan for a country house, Downing also used the term “porch” to identify the central area of the veranda leading to the entryway. The 19th-century architect William H. Ranlett sometimes distinguished between piazza and veranda, using “piazza” for a walk over which a projecting roof might be added, and “veranda” for a structure that included a roof (view text). Two points are important in the history of these terms: First, these architectural elements served to elide the boundaries of the garden and building by linking interior and exterior space both visually and physically. Second, the associative values of refinement and domesticity, and even national progress, were read into the forms.

Fig. 3, Lewis Miller, “Mount Vernon” [detail], in Orbis Pictus (c. 1849), 108.

The term “portico” was also used when referring to a covered space that was supported by columns or piers and was attached to a building. Semantic distinctions were made, however, using “portico” to identify the principal entrances to the house and “piazza” for the extended side porches. The higher status of the portico, as opposed to piazza, veranda, or porch, was emphasized by its frequent modification by adjectives such as “handsome,” “noble,” and “elegant.” The word “portico” seems not to have been used to refer to covered walkways that linked separate buildings, as is made clear in the distinction in 1777 regarding the College of William and Mary in Williamsburg, Virginia (view text). Margaret Bayard Smith in 1828 said the portico at President James Madison’s plantation, Montpelier, commanded a view, “a beautiful scene,” of extensive lawns and forests, where viewers walked through the portico until twilight when the landscape was no longer visible (view text). John Mason recalled the portico at George Mason’s Gunston Hall, near Mason Neck, Virginia, from which “you descended directly into an extensive garden”(view text). Downing’s 1849 comments conveyed a similar meaning, suggesting that the portico served to connect the building, visually and also physically, “by gradual transition with the ground about it” ().

Fig. 4, Batty and Thomas Langley, “Gothick [sic] Portico,” in Gothic Architecture (1747), pl. 32.

The portico served as a focal, as well as a viewing, point. Lewis Miller, for example, in 1849 wrote that at Mount Vernon the “lofty portico. . . has a pleasing effect when viewed from the water” (view text) [Fig. 3]. Often the portico was distinguished from the building it ornamented by its material, creating a distant focus for the spectator from the garden or surrounding landscape. A brick building was sometimes ornamented with a contrasting white stone or painted wood portico. As David Bailie Warden noted in 1816, such a feature made a house “admirably adapted to the American climate” (view text).

Fig. 5, Thomas Birch, Southeast View of Sedgeley Park, c. 1819

Porticoes generally were dressed in a classical style, meaning that classical columns supported the low-pitched roof and the front was finished with an entablature and pediment. Many descriptions specified Doric (e.g., Centre Square in Philadelphia), Tuscan (e.g., The Woodlands near Philadelphia), or Corinthian (e.g., Ranlett’s design for a house in Italian bracketed style). Two notable exceptions to the classical style, however, are well known. William Buckland’s fanciful octagonal porch at Gunston Hall (1755–58) had ogee arches and is thought to have been inspired by the writings of Batty Langley, who promoted Gothic and chinoiserie details for architectural decoration [Fig. 4]. Benjamin Henry Latrobe’s Gothic design for Sedgeley, near Philadelphia (1799) [Fig. 5], which is considered one of the earliest Gothic revival houses in America, had tall slender posts supporting the roof.

—Therese O’Malley

Texts

Usage

  • Anonymous, 1737, describing in the St. Philip’s Parish Vestry Book St. Philip’s Parish, Charleston, SC (quoted in Lounsbury 1994: 287)[3]
“[Workmen recommended the constructions of] a large Cornish under ye eves & round ye Porticoes.”


  • Carroll, Charles (the Barrister), July 2, 1767, describing Mount Clare, plantation of Charles and Margaret Tilghman Carroll, Baltimore, MD (quoted in Trostel 1981: 34)[4]
“The Plan is for a Portico or Colonade to be Joined to the Front of a House and Project Eight Feet from it, An Arch at Both Ends, for a Passage through it, to Spring from Pilasters of Stone Joined to the End Pillars of the front of the Portico and the two three Quarter Round Columns, I think they Call them, that Run up Close to the wall of the House.”


  • Anonymous, 1769, describing in the Georgia Gazette a proposed Presbyterian meetinghouse in Savannah, GA (quoted in Lounsbury 1994: 287)[3]
“[The meetinghouse was to be] 80 feet long by 47 feet wide. . . with a handsome light steeple in proportion to the frame, a portico at one end of 50 by 10 feet.”


  • Fithian, Philip Vickers, March 18, 1774, describing Nomini Hall, Westmoreland County, VA (1943: 107)[5]
“The North side [of Nomini Hall] I think is most beautiful of all; In the upper Story is a Row of seven Windows with eighteen Lights a piece; and below six windows, with the like number of lights; besides a large Portico in the middle, at the sides of which are two Windows each with eighteen Lights.”


  • Hazard, Ebenezer, May 31, 1777, describing the College of William and Mary, Williamsburg, VA (quoted in Shelley 1954: 405)[6]
“The Wings are on the West Front, between them is a covered Parade, which reaches from the one to the other; the Portico is supported by Stone Pillars.” back up to History


  • Clark, Jonathan, 1786, describing a farm in the Shenandoah Valley, VA (quoted in Lounsbury 1994: 287)[3]
“[There was a] fraimed dwelling house 26 by 20. . . and a portico the length of the fraimed house five feet wide.”


  • Brissot de Warville, Jacques Pierre, 1792, describing Mount Vernon, plantation of George Washington, Fairfax County, VA (quoted in Lockwood 1934: 2:61)[7]
“I hastened to arrive at Mount Vernon. . . after having passed over two hills, you discover a country house of an elegant and majestic simplicity. . . This house overlooks the Potomack, enjoys an extensive prospect, has a vast and elegant portico on the front next to the river, and a convenient distribution of the apartments within.”


“In the center is another very spacious apartment, of an octagon form, reaching from the front to the rear of the house, the large folding glass doors of which, at each end, open under a portico.”


Fig. 6, Benjamin Henry Latrobe, View of Mount Vernon looking to the North, July 17, 1796.
“The House is connected with the Kitchen offices by arcades. . . Along the other front is a portico supported by 8 square pillars, of good proportions and effect.” [Fig. 6]


  • Anonymous, 1803, describing in the Virginia Herald a property for rent in Fredericksburg, VA (quoted in Lounsbury 1994: 286)[3]
“. . . commodious close porch in front, and an open portico in the rear.”


  • Anonymous, August 9, 1805, describing in the Virginia Herald a property for rent in Stafford County, VA (Colonial Williamsburg Foundation)
“FOR LEASE, A Lot of Land. . . On the above lot there is two convenient Dwelling houses, situate near each other, with two rooms on a floor and a portico to each, the whole length of the house, and convenient closets.”


Fig. 7, John Lewis Krimmel, Fourth of July in Centre Square, 1811–12.
  • Scott, Joseph, 1806, describing Centre Square and Fairmount Waterworks, Philadelphia, PA (1806: 25)[10]
“The water-works of Philadelphia are the most extensive of their kind of any in America. . . The water is discharged into a circular aqueduct, extending along Chestnut and Broad streets, into the middle of Market-street, in the centre square. . . The building in the centre square, is a square of sixty feet, with a Doric portico on the east and west fronts. From its centre rises a circular tower, forty feet in diameter. It is covered by a dome. The tower contains the engine and reservoir. . . large enough to contain 20,000 gallons, all the chimnies of the house, which form a marble pedestal, on the summit. The shafts of the columns of the porticos, consist each of one solid block of marble, 14 feet 9 inches in length, and two feet nine inches in diameter, at the base.”[Fig. 7]


Fig. 8, William Strickland, “The Woodlands,” 1809, in Casket 5, no. 10 (October 1830): pl. opp. 432.
“The walk is said to be a mile long—perhaps it is something less. One is led into the garden from the portico, to the east or lefthand.” [Fig. 8]


  • Martin, William Dickinson, May 20, 1809, describing Philadelphia, PA (Colonial Williamsburg Foundation)
“The building in Centre Square, is Sixty feet in every direction; having a Doric portico in front, to the East & West.”


“The house has two porticoes of the Doric order, though one of them was not quite completed, and the pediment had in the meanwhile to be supported on the stems of four tulip trees, which are really, when well grown, as beautiful as the fluted shafts of Corinthian pillars. They front north and south.”


  • Warden, David Bailie, 1816, describing Riversdale, estate of George and Rosalie Stier Calvert, Prince George’s County, MD (1816: 156)[13]
“The establishment of George Calvert, Esq. at Bladensburg, attracts attention. His mansion, consisting of two stories, seventy feet in length, and thirty-six in breadth, is admirably adapted to the American climate. On each side there is a large portico, which shelters from the sun, rain, or snow.” back up to History


  • Anonymous, September 30, 1820, describing in the Virginia Herald a property for rent in Culpeper County, VA (Colonial Williamsburg Foundation)
“I will sell my tavern establishment. . . consisting of. . . A large and commodious house with four rooms below stairs and eight above, with two large porticoes—a new smoke house, a new ice house.”


  • Silliman, Benjamin, 1824, describing Monte Video, property of Daniel Wadsworth, Avon, CT (1824: 12)[14]
“To the west, the lawn rises gradually from the water, until it reaches the portico of the house, near the brow of the mountain, beyond which, the western valley is again seen.”


  • Ticknor, George, December 16, 1824, in a letter to William H. Prescott, describing Montpelier, plantation of James Madison, Montpelier Station, VA (quoted in Jones 1957: 7)[15]
“We were received with a good deal of dignity and much cordiality, by Mr. and Mrs. Madison, in the portico, and immediately placed at ease.”


  • Douglass, Frederick, 1825, describing Wye House, estate of Col. Edward Lloyd, Talbot County, MD (1855; repr., 1987: 47) [16]
“The great house itself was a large, white, wooden building, with wings on three sides of it. In front, a large portico, extending the entire length of the building, and supported by a long range of columns, gave to the whole establishment an air of solemn grandeur.”


  • Smith, Margaret Bayard, August 2, 1828, describing the University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA (1906: 226)[17]
“The rotunda is in form and proportioned like the Pantheon at Rome. It has a noble portico,— the pillars, cornice, &c of the Corinthian.”


Fig. 9, Anonymous, “Montpelier, VA, the Seat of the late James Madison,” 1835.
  • Smith, Margaret Bayard, August 17, 1828, describing Montpelier, plantation of James Madison, Montpelier Station, VA (1906: 233, 235–36)[17]
“We were at first conducted into the Drawing room, which opens on the back Portico and thus commands a view through the whole house, which is surrounded with an extensive lawn, as green as in spring; the lawn is enclosed with fine trees, chiefly forest, but interspersed with weeping willows and other ornamental trees, all of most luxuriant growth and vivid verdure. It was a beautiful scene! . . . After dinner, we all walked in the Portico, (or piazza, which is 60 feet long, supported on six lofty pillars) until twilight.” [Fig. 9] back up to History


Fig. 10, Thomas Birch, Southeast View of “Sedgeley Park,” the Country Seat of James Cowles Fisher, Esq., c. 1819.
  • Anonymous, June 1829, describing Sedgeley, seat of James C. Fisher, near Philadelphia , PA (Casket 4: 265)[18]
“The mansion was designed and erected under the superintendance of the late Mr. Latrobe, and has been much admired for its architectural beauty. The style is Gothic, with a portico front and rear, supported by eight columns each. It presents a length of seventy-five feet, and is well adapted in the arrangement of the interior for a gentleman’s residence.” [Fig. 10]


  • Mason, General John, c. 1830, describing Gunston Hall, seat of George Mason, Mason Neck, VA (quoted in Rowland 1964: 1:98)[19]
“The south front looked to the river; from an elevated little portico on this front you descended directly into an extensive garden, touching the house on one side.” back up to History


  • Featherstonhaugh, George William, August 18 and 19 1837, describing Fort Hill, seat of John C. Calhoun, Clemson, SC (quoted in Jones 1957: 126)[15]
“After partaking of an excellent dinner we adjourned for the evening to the portico, where with the aid of a guitar, accompanied by a pleasing voice, and some capital curds and cream, we prolonged a most agreeable conversazione until a late hour. . .

“On our return to Fort Hill, the family again assembled in the portico to pass a most agreeable evening.”


  • Buckingham, James Silk, 1842, describing Red Sulphur Springs, VA (Colonial Williamburg Foundation)
“Behind the “Bachelor’s Row,” and on the upper part of the hill is an imposing edifice of brick, called “Society Hall.” It is built of two stories, with a fine portico of twelve feet wide, running the whole length of the front, and a terrace of twenty feet wide beyond this.”


  • Anonymous, August 1848, describing Riversdale, estate of George and Rosalie Stier Calvert, Prince George’s County, MD (American Farmer 4: 53)[20]
“The main building is 68 by about 50 feet, with an elegant Portico on its northern [front], and a Piaza [sic], running its entire length, on its southern front, each constructed with due regard to classic and architectural propriety.”


  • Miller, Lewis, June 5, 1849, describing Mount Vernon, plantation of George Washington, Fairfax County, VA (c. 1850: 108)[21]
“The mansion house itself appears venerable and convenient[.] A lofty portico ninety-six feet in length, Supported by Eight pillars, has a pleasing effect when viewed from the water.” back up to History


Citations

  • Dezallier d’Argenville, Antoine-Joseph, 1712, The Theory and Practice of Gardening (1712; repr., 1969: 72)[22]
“A PORTICO. . . being the Entrance in Front of a Summer-House, Salon, or Arbor of Latticework, and is generally adorn'd with a handsome Cornice and Frontispiece, supported by Pilasters or Peers; or else it is a long Decoration of Architecture placed against a Wall, or at the Entrance of a Wood, where the Advances and Returns are but inconsiderable.

“ARBORS, Cabinets, and Porticos of Latticework, are commonly made use of to terminate a Garden in the City, and to shut out the Sight of Walls, and other disagreeable Objects; this Kind of Decoration making a handsome Sight, and serving very well to conclude the Prospect of a principal Walk.”


Fig. 11, James Gibbs, “The Plan, Upright and Section of a Building of the Dorick Order in the form of a Temple,” in A Book of Architecture (1728), pl. 67.
“The Plan, Upright and Section of a Building of the Dorick Order in the form of a Temple, made for a Person of Quality, and proposed to have been placed in the Center of four Walks; so that a Portico might front each Walk.” [Fig. 11]


“PIAZZA, in building, popularly called piache, an Italian name for a portico, or covered walk, supported by arches. See PORTICO.

“The word literally signifies a broad open place or square; whence it also became applied to the walks or portico’s around them. . .

“PORTICO, in architecture, a kind of gallery on the ground; or a piazza encompassed with arches supported by columns, where people walk under covert. See PIAZZA. . .

“PORTICO. . .

“The roof is usually vaulted, sometimes flat. The ancients called it lacunar. See LACUNAR, VAULT, &c.

“Though the word portico be derived from porta, gate, door; yet it is applied to any disposition of columns which form a gallery, without any immediate relation to doors or gates.

“The most celebrated portico’s of antiquity were those of Solomon’s temple, which formed the atrium or court, and encompassed the sanctuary: that of Athens, built for the people to divert themselves in, and wherein the philosophers held their disputes and conversations; which occasioned the disciples of Zeno to be called stoics. . . .

“Among the modern portico’s, the most celebrated is the piazza of St. Peter of the Vatican.—That of Covent-Garden, London, the work of Inigo Jones, is also much admired.”


  • Johnson, Samuel, 1755, A Dictionary of the English Language (1755: 2:n.p.)[25]
“PO'RTICO. n.s. [porticus, Lat. portico, Italian; portique, Fr.] A covered walk; a piazza.”


  • Ware, Isaac, 1756, Complete Body of Architecture (1756: 31)[26]
“PORTICO.

“A place for walking under shelter, raised with arches, in the manner of a gallery. The portico is usually vaulted, but it has sometimes a soffit, or ceiling. The portico is a piazza encompassed with arches raised upon columns, and covered over head in any manner. The word seems to refer to the gate or entrance of some place, porta in Latin signifying a gate; but it is appropriated to a disposition of columns, forming this kind of gallery, and has no relation to the openings.”


  • Salmon, William, 1762, Palladio Londinensis (1762: n.p.)[27]
“Piazza, in Architecture, commonly called Piache, an Italian Name for a Portico; it signifies a broad open Place or Square, whence it became applied to Walks or Porticos of Pillars around them, like those of Covent Garden, the Royal Exchange, &c.”


  • Sheridan, Thomas, 1789, A Complete Dictionary of the English Language (1789: n.p.)[28]
“PORTICO, pa'r-ty-ko. s. A covered walk, a piazza.”


  • Marshall, William, 1803, On Planting and Rural Ornament (1803: 1:266)[29]
“IN extensive grounds, RETREATS, more especially in the remoter parts, are in a degree requisite; and, if they be seen, they ought to harmonize with the views in which they appear; and, of course, the more polished the scene, the more ornamental should be the Retreat,—whether it be the Room, the Portico, or the more simple Alcove.”


  • Webster, Noah, 1828, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828: 2:n.p.)[30]
“PORTICO, n. [It. portico; L. porticus, from porta or portus.]

“In architecture, a kind of gallery on the ground, or a piazza encompassed with arches supported by columns; a covered walk. The roof is sometimes flat; sometimes vaulted. Encyc.”


“POR'TI-CO, n. [It. portico; L. porticus, from porta or portus.]

“In architecture, originally, a colonnade or covered ambulatory; but at present, a covered space, inclosed by columns at the entrance of a building. P. Cyc.”


“In this country no architectural feature is more plainly expressive of purpose in our dwelling-houses than the veranda, or piazza. The unclouded splendor and fierce heat of our summer sun, render this very general appendage a source of real comfort and enjoyment; and the long veranda round many of our country residences stands instead of the paved terraces of the English mansions as the place for promenade; while during the warmer portions of the season, half of the days or evenings are there passed in the enjoyment of the cool breezes, secure under low roofs supported by the open colonnade, from the solar rays, or the dews of night. . .

“The various projections and irregularities, caused by verandas, porticoes, etc., serve to connect the otherwise square masses of building, by gradual transition with the ground about it.” back up to History


Fig. 12, Frances Palmer, East Front Elevation of Italian Bracketed Villa, in William H. Ranlett, The Architect (1851), vol. 2, pl. 9, top.
  • Ranlett, William H., 1851, The Architect (1851; repr., 1976: 2:14)[33]
“The design given in this part of the Architect, number XXVI., is the plan of a Villa in the Anglo-Italian style, now in process of erection on the south side of Lake Ontario, in the city of Oswego. . .

“On the east side are two bay windows, one on each side of the principal entrance, which has a portico supported by fluted Corinthian columns. On the south is a flat-roofed piazza, with open balustrade railing, supported by Corinthian columns.” [Fig. 12] back up to History


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Inscribed

  • Michael van der Gucht, “Of Porticos, Bowers, and Cabinets of Arbor-work”, in Antoine-Joseph Dezallier d’Argenville, The Theory and Practice of Gardening (1712), pl. E opp. 71.

  • James Gibbs, “The Plan, Upright and Section of a Building of the Dorick Order in the form of a Temple,” in A Book of Architecture (1728), pl. 67.

  • Batty and Thomas Langley, “Gothick [sic] Portico,” in Gothic Architecture (1747), pl. 32.

  • Benjamin Henry Latrobe, Houses and a church. Garden plan with outbuildings, 1795–99. “Portico” is inscribed near the bottom of the plan.

  • Benjamin Henry Latrobe, View of Mount Vernon looking to the North, July 17, 1796. "The portico faces to the East."

  • Benjamin Henry Latrobe, “View of the East front of the President’s House, with the additions of the North & South Porticos,” 1807.

  • Benjamin Henry Latrobe, “General Plan of a Marine Asylum and Hospital proposed to be built at Washington,” 1812. “Portico” is inscribed at the Western entrance.

  • Robert Mills, Plan of wings and courtyards, South Carolina Insane Asylum, 1821, in John M. Bryan, ed., Robert Mills, Architect (1989), pl. 10. The portico is indicated at the botton center of the plan.

  • J. C. Loudon, “Porches and Porticoes,” in An Encyclopaedia of Gardening, 4th ed. (1826), 356, fig. 330.

  • Lewis Miller, “Mount Vernon” [detail], in Orbis Pictus (c. 1849), 108.

Associated

  • Thomas Jefferson, Monticello: 1st version (elevation), probably before March 1771.

  • James Peller Malcolm, The Woodlands From the Bridge at Gray’s Ferry, c. 1792, in Beth C. Wees and Medill H. Harvey, Early American Silver in the Metropolitan Museum of Art (2013), 259.

  • Benjamin Henry Latrobe, “View of Mount Vernon looking towards the South,” 1796.

  • Francis Guy, Mount Deposit from the North, 1805.

  • William Russell Birch, “York-Island, with a View of the Seats of M.r A. Gracie, M.r Church &c.,” in The Country Seats of the United States of North America (1808), pl. 17.

  • William Strickland, “The Woodlands,” 1809, in Casket 5, no. 10 (October 1830): pl. opp. 432.

  • John Lewis Krimmel, Fourth of July in Centre Square, 1811–12.

  • Robert Mills, Front elevation, South Carolina Insane Asylum, c. 1820, in John M. Bryan, ed. Robert Mills, Architect (1989), pl. 7.

  • Daniel Wadsworth, “Monte Video, Approach to the House,” in Benjamin Silliman, Remarks Made on a Short Tour between Hartford and Quebec, in the Autumn of 1819 (1824), pl. opp. 16.

  • Jane Braddick Peticolas, View of West Front of Monticello and Garden, 1825.

  • Anonymous, “Montpelier, Va., the Seat of the late James Madison,” 1835.

  • Victor De Grailly, Mount Vernon, c. 1840—50.

  • Frances Palmer, “Italian Bracketed Villa,” in William H. Ranlett, The Architect (1851), vol. 2, pl. 7.

  • Frances Palmer, East Front Elevation of Italian Bracketed Villa, in William H. Ranlett, The Architect (1851), vol. 2, pl. 9, top.

Attributed

  • Charles Willson Peale, Charles Carroll, c. 1770.

  • Cornelius Tiebout, A View of the present Seat of His Excel. the Vice President of the United States, 1790.

  • Benjamin Henry Latrobe, Houses and a church. Garden temple elevations and floor plan, c. 1795–99.

  • Benjamin Henry Latrobe, Houses and a church. Side elevation and basement floor plan, c. 1795–99.

  • Benjamin Henry Latrobe, Houses and a church. Lodge—Sections showing interior elevation, c. 1795–99.

  • Benjamin Henry Latrobe, Sedgeley, 1799.

  • William Russell Birch, Montebello—The Seat of General Smith, c. 1808.

  • William Russell Birch, “Montibello the seat of Genl. S. Smith Maryland,” 1808, in William Russell Birch and Emily Cooperman, The Country Seats of the United States (2009), 67, pl. 13.

  • William Russell Birch, “Mendenhall Ferry, Schuylkill, Pennsylvania,” 1808, in William Russell Birch and Emily Cooperman, The Country Seats of the United States (2009), 77, pl. 18. Porticos can be seen on the two seats on the bank.

  • William Russell Birch, “China Retreat Pennsyl.a the Seat of M.r Manigault,” 1808, in William Russell Birch and Emily Cooperman, The Country Seats of the United States (2009), 79, pl. 19.

  • Anonymous, The Lilacs, Residence of Thomas Kidder [perspective rendering, front], c. 1810.

  • Lewis and Goodwin (lithographers), after a drawing by Joseph Jacques Ramée, Union College. Schenectady, N.Y., 1815.

  • Benjamin Henry Latrobe, “Elevation of the South front of the President’s house, copied from the design as proposed to be altered in 1807,” January 1817.

  • Joshua H. Hayward, “A View of the Seat of Theodore Lyman, Esqr., in Waltham, taken on the principles of perspective,” Mathematical Thesis, 1818.

  • Thomas Birch, Southeast View of “Sedgeley Park,” the Country Seat of James Cowles Fisher, Esq., c. 1819.

  • Mdme. Janika de Feriet, The Hermitage, c. 1820.

  • William Russell Birch, “Landsdown,” before 1834.

  • Robert P. Smith, “View of Washington,” c. 1850.

  • Benjamin Henry Latrobe, View of the North Front of Belvidere, Richmond, 1790s.

Notes

  1. ↑ William Russell Birch, The Country Seats of the United States of North America: With Some Scenes Connected with Them (Springland, PA: W. Birch, 1808), view on Zotero.
  2. ↑ William Pierson Jr. traces the origins of the feature, specifically found in Alexander Jackson Davis and A. J. Downing’s work, to the awning or canopy partaking of an oriental flavor. In general, its origin was a semi-enclosed outdoor space that was not at all architectural but was related to the ornamental canopy or tent. This connection might explain why the detail flourished during the high romantic period in American architecture. See Pierson, American Buildings and Their Architects: Technology and the Picturesque, the Corporate and the Early Gothic Styles, 2 vols. (New York: Doubleday, 1978), 2:300–4, view on Zotero. Also see Alexander Jackson Downing, The Architecture of Country Houses; Including Designs for Cottages, Farm-Houses, and Villas (1850; repr., New York: D. Appleton; Da Capo, 1968), 357, view on Zotero.
  3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3 Carl R. Lounsbury, ed., An Illustrated Glossary of Early Southern Architecture and Landscape (New York: Oxford University Press, 1994), view on Zotero.
  4. ↑ Michael Trostel, Mount Clare, Being an Account of the Seat Built by Charles Carroll, Barrister, upon His Lands at Patapsco (Baltimore: National Society of the Colonial Dames of America in the State of Maryland, 1981), view on Zotero.
  5. ↑ Philip Vickers Fithian, Journal & Letters of Philip Vickers Fithian, 1773–1774: A Plantation Tutor of the Old Dominion, ed. Hunter D. Farish (Williamsburg, VA: Colonial Williamsburg, 1943), view on Zotero.
  6. ↑ Fred Shelley, “The Journal of Ebenezer Hazard in Virginia, 1777,” Virginia Magazine of History and Biography 62 (1954): 400–23, view on Zotero.
  7. ↑ Alice B. Lockwood, ed., Gardens of Colony and State: Gardens and Gardeners of the American Colonies and of the Republic before 1840, 2 vols. (New York: Charles Scribner’s for the Garden Club of America, 1931–34), view on Zotero.
  8. ↑ Isaac Weld, Travels through the States of North America and the Provinces of Upper and Lower Canada, during the Years 1795, 1796, and 1797, 2 vols. (London: John Stockdale, 1799), on Zotero.
  9. ↑ Benjamin Henry Latrobe, The Virginia Journals of Benjamin Henry Latrobe, 1795-1798, ed. Edward C. Carter II, 2 vols. (New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1977), view on Zotero.
  10. ↑ Joseph A. Scott, Geographical Description of Pennsylvania (Philadelphia: Printed by R. Cochran, 1806), view on Zotero.
  11. ↑ Charles Drayton, “The Diary of Charles Drayton I, 1806,” Drayton Hall: A National Historic Trust Site, view on Zotero.
  12. ↑ Sir Augustus John Foster, Jeffersonian America: Notes on the United States of America Collected in the Years 1805–1806–1807 and 1811–1812, ed. Richard Beale Davis (San Marino, CA: Huntington Library, 1954) view on Zotero.
  13. ↑ David Bailie Warden, A Chronographical and Statistical Description of the District of Columbia (Paris: Printed and sold by Smith, 1816), view on Zotero.
  14. ↑ Benjamin Silliman, Remarks Made on a Short Tour between Hartford and Quebec, in the Autumn of 1819 (New Haven, CT: S. Converse, 1824), view on Zotero.
  15. ↑ 15.0 15.1 Katharine M. Jones, The Plantation South (New York: Bobbs-Merrill, 1957), view on Zotero.
  16. ↑ Frederick Douglass, My Bondage and My Freedom, ed. William L. Andrews (1855; repr., Urbana, IL: University of Illinois Press, 1987), view on Zotero.
  17. ↑ 17.0 17.1 Margaret Bayard Smith, The First Forty Years of Washington Society, ed. Gaillard Hunt (New York: Charles Scribner’s, 1906), view on Zotero.
  18. ↑ Anonymous, “Sedgeley Park, the Seat of James C. Fisher, Esq.,” Casket, or Flowers of Literature, Wit & Sentiment 4, no. 6 (June 1829): 265, view on Zotero.
  19. ↑ Kate Mason Rowland, The Life of George Mason: 1725–1792, 2 vols. (New York: Russell and Russell, 1964), view on Zotero.
  20. ↑ Anonymous, “Visit to Riversdale,” American Farmer, and Spirit of Agricultural Journals of the Day 4, no. 2 (August 1848): 52–55, view on Zotero.
  21. ↑ Lewis Miller, Orbis Pictus: A Picturesque Album to the Ladies of York, Pennsylvania (Williamsburg, VA: Abby Aldrich Rockefeller Folk Art Center, Colonial Williamsburg Foundation, c. 1850), view on Zotero.
  22. ↑ A.-J. (Antoine Joseph) Dézallier d’Argenville, The Theory and Practice of Gardening. . . , trans. John James (London: Geo. James, 1712; repr., Farnborough, England: Gregg, 1969), view on Zotero.
  23. ↑ James Gibbs, A Book of Architecture, Containing Designs of Buildings and Ornaments, (London: Printed for W. Innys et al., 1728), view on Zotero.
  24. ↑ Ephraim Chambers, Cyclopaedia, or An Universal Dictionary of Arts and Sciences. . . , 5th ed., 2 vols. (London: D. Midwinter et al., 1741–43), view on Zotero.
  25. ↑ Samuel Johnson, Samuel, A Dictionary of the English Language: In Which the Words are Deduced from the Originals and Illustrated in the Different Significations by Examples from the Best Writers, 2 vols. (London: W. Strahan for J. and P. Knapton, 1755), view on Zotero.
  26. ↑ Isaac Ware, A Complete Body of Architecture (London: T. Osborne and J. Shipton, 1756), view on Zotero.
  27. ↑ William Salmon, Palladio Londinensis, or The London Art of Building: In Three Parts. . . with Fifty-Four Copper Plates, to Which Is Annexed, The Builder’s Dictionary, ed. E. Hoppus, 6th ed. (London: Printed for C. Hitch et al., 1762), view on Zotero.
  28. ↑ Thomas A. Sheridan, A Complete Dictionary of the English Language, Carefully Revised and Corrected by John Andrews. . . , 5th ed. (Philadelphia: William Young, 1789), view on Zotero.
  29. ↑ William Marshall, On Planting and Rural Ornament: A Practical Treatise . . ., 2 vols. (London: G. and W. Nicol, G. and J. Robinson, T. Cadell, and W. Davies, 1803), view on Zotero.
  30. ↑ Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language, 2 vols. (New York: S. Converse, 1828), view on Zotero.
  31. ↑ Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language. . . Revised and Enlarged by Chauncey A. Goodrich, (Springfield, MA: George and Charles Merriam, 1848), view on Zotero.
  32. ↑ Alexander Jackson Downing, A Treatise on the Theory and Practice of Landscape Gardening, Adapted to North America. . ., 4th ed. (New York: G. P. Putnam, 1849), view on Zotero.
  33. ↑ William H. Ranlett, The Architect, 2 vols. (1849–51; repr., New York: Da Capo, 1976), view on Zotero.

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