Week 4

Question 1

Pingree House

Answer 1

Samuel McIntire, Salem MA, 1804-06
- no pilasters, tight control on ornament, Adamesque curves

Question 2

Harris Gray Otis House

Answer 2

Charles Bulfinch, Boston MA, 1795-96
Federalist building, similar to McIntire but no Adamesque features. Dormer windows

Question 3

Tontine Crescent

Answer 3

Bulfinch, Boston, 1794.
Urban planning, attached double pile row houses w/ shared park in center. Failed because too expensive

Question 4

Bank of Pennsylvania

Answer 4

Benjamin Latrobe, Philadelphia, 1798-1800.
Referencing geometric neoclassicism not Georgian, central sphere banking hall, alcoves and curving stairs

Question 5

University of Virginia Rotunda

Answer 5

Thomas Jefferson, Charlottesville VA, 1817-26
Influenced by Latrobe for geometry, federalist, later plan for academic village

Question 6

Monticello

Answer 6

Thomas Jefferson, Charlottesville VA, 1763-1809
Temple front and dome w windows, central plantation, ctrl access, Adamesque alcoves

Question 7

Plan of Pennsylvania

Answer 7

William Penn, PA, 1682
Designed as a city, great square, neighborhood markets, two waterfronts. Gridded into house lots

Question 8

Gridded Agricultural Landscape

Answer 8

US Surveyor General, Quincy Minnesota, 1860s
Shows forty-acre tracts

Question 9

Section Road

Answer 9

US Surveyor General, Minnesota 1874
19th century followed grid lines, traces still in urban development

Question 10

Spring Turning

Answer 10

Grant Wood, 1936
Regionalist painting celebrating beauty of the grid