Name: | Unknown |
Address: | 816 East Fayette Street |
Constructed: | 1842 |
Exactly duplicating in larger scale the home preceding, is this second "Temple on the Illisus". The features are identical, the entablature stoppiig short, the splendid Ionic columns supported by perfect Greek bases, the flush clapboards of the pediment. The unusually large oval window in the pediment should be especially noted, for its geometric mullions surely point a finger at the coming Gothic Revival. Perhaps this was added later along with the leaded glass panels of the first floor windows.
The chief note of interest is the magnificent doorway with two Doric columns "in antis", typical sidelights and full entablature (figure 3). Incongruous are the Ionic bases for the Doric columns, but more thoroughly incoherent is the evidence of popular misconception so proudly flaunted in the doorway. This structure is named for a style dead since the beginnings of the Federal Union and the downfall of English Imperialism in the New World. Through some unfortunate quirk, columns and "Colonial" have attained a similiar status in the public mind.
Unlike the last example there is here an extensive wing, but placed to the rear to avoid distracting from the idealistic, pagan templs atmosphere.