Boston College. Color slides copyright Prof. Jeffery Howe.

Click on thumbnail image or highlighted text for a larger picture.

18th Century Architecture

Domestic Architecture - part 2: 1750-1800

Vassall(Longfellow House),  Cambridge, MA, 1759	Vassall(Longfellow House),  Cambridge, MA, 1759	Vassall(Longfellow House),  Cambridge, MA, 1759
Vassall(Longfellow House),  Cambridge, MA, 1759
Lady Pepperell House,  Kittery, Maine, 1760
Wentworth-Gardner House,  Portsmouth, N.H., 1760	Wentworth-Gardner House, Portsmouth, N.H., 1760
Hooper house,  Marblehead, MA., 1768	Hooper house,  Marblehead, MA., 1768	Hooper house,  Marblehead, MA., 1768
Hooper house,  Marblehead, MA., 1768	Hooper house,  Marblehead, MA., 1768
Jeremiah Lee House,  Marblehead, MA, 1768 - old photo	Jeremiah Lee House,  Marblehead, MA, 1768 - 1998 photo	Jeremiah Lee House,  Marblehead, MA
Jeremiah Lee House,  Marblehead, MA, 1768	Jeremiah Lee House,  Marblehead, MA, 1768	Jeremiah Lee House,  Marblehead, MA, 1768
Jeremiah Lee House,  Marblehead, MA, 1768	Jeremiah Lee House,  Marblehead, MA, 1768	Jeremiah Lee House,  Marblehead, MA, 1768
Jeremiah Lee House,  Marblehead, MA, 1768	Jeremiah Lee House,  Marblehead, MA, 1768

1. Vassall (Longfellow House), plan, Cambridge, MA, 1759. From Fiske Kimbal, Domestic Architecture of the American Colonies and the Early Republic, 1922.
2. Lady Pepperell House. Kittery, Maine, 1760.
3. Wentworth-Gardner House. Portsmouth, N.H., 1760.
4. Wentworth-Gardner House. Portsmouth, N.H., 1760. Wood siding cut and painted to look like stone.
5. Robert "King" Hooper house, Marblehead, MA. 1768.
6. Robert "King" Hooper house, Marblehead, MA. 1768. Wood siding cut and painted to look like stone.
7. Jeremiah Lee House, Marblehead, MA, 1768.

Monticello, n.  Charlottesville, VA	More Slides of  Monticello - separate page
Gore Estate,  Waltham, MA

1. Thomas Jefferson: Monticello, 1770-1796; 1809 1990 photograph.
2. More slides of Monticello - separate page
3. Gore Estate, Waltham, 1797 (Whiffen & Koeper), 1805. Design attributed to Rebecca Gore and French architect Jacques-Gillaume Legrand.

 

C. Bulfinch: Tontine  Crescent. 1790, Boston	C. Bulfinch: Tontine  Crescent. 1790, Boston	C. Bulfinch: Tontine  Crescent. 1790, Boston
C. Bulfinch: 1st H.G. Otis  House, Boston, 1796	C. Bulfinch: 2nd H.G. Otis House, 1800, Boston	C. Bulfinch: 3rd H.G. Otis House, 1806, Boston

1. Tontine Crescent, Boston, 1790. Charles Bulfinch, architect.
2. Tontine Crescent, Boston, 1790. Charles Bulfinch, architect.
3. Tontine Crescent, Boston, 1790. Charles Bulfinch, architect.
4. 1st Harrison Gray Otis House, Boston, 1796Charles Bulfinch, architect.
5. 2nd Harrison Gray Otis House, Boston, 1800Charles Bulfinch, architect.
6. 3rd Harrison Gray Otis House, Boston, 1806.Charles Bulfinch, architect.

Choose a category:
 

Other options for study

Contents  of this site

Other Architecture Web Links

Fine Arts Department Home Page

Boston College
Jeffery Howe, 1998