Diary (2004)
“All of them three or four stories tall with white columns, they all date from the last economic boom, eighty years ago. A century. House after house, they sit back among branching trees as big as green storm clouds, walnuts and oaks. They line Cedar Street, facing each other across rolled lawns. The first time you see them, they look so rich.“Temple fronts,” Harrow Wilmot told Misty. Starting in about 1798, Americans built simple but massive Greek Revival façades. By 1824, he says, when William... Strickland designed the Second Bank of the United States in Philadelphia, there was no going back. After that, houses large and small had to have a row of fluted columns and a looming pediment roof across the front.People called them “end houses” because all this fancy detail was confined to one end. The rest of the house was plain.That could describe almost any house on the island. All façade. Your first impression.From the Capitol building in Washington, D.C., to the smallest cottage, what architects called “the Greek cancer”MoreLess
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