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22-629: The Captain David Pugh House is a historic 19th-century Federal-style residence on the Cacapon River in the unincorporated community of Hooks Mills in Hampshire County , West Virginia , United States . It is also known by its current farm name, Riversdell . It is a 2 + 1 ⁄ 2 -story frame dwelling built in 1835. It sits on a stone foundation and has a 2 + 1 ⁄ 2 -story addition built in 1910. The front facade features

44-545: A centered porch with shed roof supported by two Tuscan order columns. The rear has a two-story, full-width porch recessed under the gable roof. Also on the property are a contributing spring house (c. 1835), shed (c. 1900), outhouse (c. 1930), and stone wall (c. 1835). It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2004. This article about a property in Hampshire County, West Virginia on

66-606: A dignified, classical style. Bulfinch was responsible for the design of the Boston Common , the remodeling and enlargement of Faneuil Hall (1805), and the construction of India Wharf . In these Boston years, he also designed the Massachusetts State Prison (1803); Boylston Market (1810); University Hall for Harvard University (1813–1814); First Church of Christ, Unitarian in Lancaster, Massachusetts (1815–1817); and

88-419: Is the last standing. Serving from 1791 to 1795 on Boston's board of selectmen , he resigned due to business pressures but returned in 1799. From 1799 to 1817, he was the chairman of Boston's board of selectmen continuously, and served as a paid police superintendent, improving the city's streets, drains, and lighting. Under his direction, both the infrastructure and civic center of Boston were transformed into

110-553: The American colonies ' new motifs of neoclassical architecture as it was epitomized in Britain by Robert Adam , who published his designs in 1792. American Federal architecture typically uses plain surfaces with attenuated detail, usually isolated in panels, tablets, and friezes . It also had a flatter, smoother façade and rarely used pilasters . It was most influenced by the interpretation of ancient Roman architecture , fashionable after

132-632: The Commissioners' Plan of 1811 in New York. The historic eastern part of Bleecker Street in New York, between Broadway and the Bowery , is home to Federal-style row houses at 7 to 13 and 21 to 25 Bleecker Street . The classicizing style of Federal architecture can especially be seen in the quintessential New England meeting house, with their lofty and complex towers by architects such as Lavius Fillmore and Asher Benjamin . This American neoclassical high style

154-796: The Salem Maritime National Historic Site , consisting of 12 historic structures and about 9 acres (4 ha) of land along the waterfront. Modern reassessment of the American architecture of the Federal period began with Fiske Kimball . Charles Bulfinch Charles Bulfinch (August 8, 1763 – April 15, 1844) was an early American architect , and has been regarded by many as the first American-born professional architect to practice. Bulfinch split his career between his native Boston , Massachusetts , and Washington, D.C. , where he served as Commissioner of Public Building and built

176-575: The Bulfinch Building, home of the Ether Dome at Massachusetts General Hospital (1818), its completion overseen by Alexander Parris , who was working in Bulfinch's office at the time the architect was summoned to Washington. Despite this great activity and civic involvement, Bulfinch was insolvent several times starting in 1796, including at the start of his work on the statehouse, and was jailed for

198-776: The National Register of Historic Places is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Federal architecture Federal style is also used in association with furniture design in the United States of the same time period. The style broadly corresponds to the classicism of Biedermeier style in the German -speaking lands, Regency architecture in Britain, and the French Empire style . It may also be termed Adamesque architecture . The White House and Monticello were setting stones for what Federal architecture has become. In

220-516: The United States in 1787, he became a promoter of the ship Columbia Rediviva 's voyage around the world under command of Captain Robert Gray (1755–1806). It was the first American ship to circumnavigate the globe. In 1788, he married Hannah Apthorp, his first cousin. Their sons include Thomas Bulfinch (1796–1867), author of Bulfinch's Mythology , and Stephen Greenleaf Bulfinch (1809–1870), Unitarian clergyman and author. Bulfinch's first building

242-624: The age of 12, he watched the Battle of Bunker Hill from this home on the Boston side of the Charles River. Charles himself was married to Hannah Apthorp on 20 November 1788 in Boston. He was educated at Boston Latin School and Harvard University , from which he graduated with an AB in 1781 and master's degree in 1784. He then made a grand tour of Europe from 1785 to 1788, traveling to London, Paris, and

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264-578: The earliest agricultural societies in the United States. The Society was incorporated by an act of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts on March 7, 1792. As Commissioner of Public Building, Bulfinch completed the Capitol 's wings and central portion, designed the western approach and portico , and constructed the Capitol's original low wooden dome to his own design (replaced by the present cast-iron dome completed in

286-456: The early United States, the founding generation consciously chose to associate the nation with the ancient democracies of Greece and the republican values of Rome . Grecian aspirations informed the Greek Revival , lasting into the 1850s. Using Roman architectural vocabulary, the Federal style applied to the balanced and symmetrical version of Georgian architecture that had been practiced in

308-417: The intermediate United States Capitol rotunda and dome . His works are notable for their simplicity, balance, and good taste, and as the origin of a distinctive Federal style of classical domes, columns, and ornament that dominated early 19th-century American architecture . Bulfinch was born in Boston to Thomas Bulfinch, a prominent physician, and his wife, Susan Apthorp, daughter of Charles Apthorp . At

330-581: The major cities of Italy. Bulfinch was greatly influenced by Renaissance architect Andrea Palladio . He was also influenced by the classical architecture in Italy and the neoclassical buildings of Sir Christopher Wren , Robert Adam , William Chambers , and others in the United Kingdom . Thomas Jefferson became something of a mentor to him in Europe, as he would later be to Robert Mills . Upon his return to

352-659: The mid-1860s). In 1829 Bulfinch completed the construction of the Capitol, 36 years after its cornerstone was laid. During his interval in Washington, Bulfinch also drew plans for the State House in Augusta, Maine (1829–1832), a Unitarian Church and prison in Washington, D.C.. In 1827, he was elected into the National Academy of Design as an Honorary member. He returned to Boston in 1830, where he died on April 15, 1844, aged 80, and

374-419: The month of July 1811 for debt (in a prison he had designed himself). There was no payment for his services as selectman, and he received only $ 1,400 for designing and overseeing the construction of the State House. In the summer of 1817, Bulfinch's roles as selectman, designer, and public official coincided during a visit by President James Monroe . The two men were almost constantly in each other's company for

396-452: The unearthing of Pompeii and Herculaneum . The bald eagle was a common symbol used in this style, with the ellipse a frequent architectural motif. The classicizing manner of constructions and town planning undertaken by the federal government was expressed in early federal projects of lighthouses, harbor buildings, universities, and hospitals. It can be seen in the rationalizing, urbanistic layout of L'Enfant Plan of Washington and in

418-598: The week-long visit, and a few months later (1818), Monroe appointed Bulfinch the successor to Benjamin Henry Latrobe (1764–1820) as Architect of the Capitol in Washington, DC (the Capitol Building had been partially burned by the British in 1814.) In this position, he was paid a salary of $ 2,500 per year plus expenses. He was also a founding member of The Massachusetts Society for Promoting Agriculture (M.S.P.A.), one of

440-550: Was elected a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1791. Over the course of ten years, Bulfinch built a remarkable number of private dwellings in the Boston area, including Joseph Barrell 's Pleasant Hill (1793), a series of three houses in Boston for Harrison Gray Otis (1796, 1800, 1806), and the John Phillips House (1804). He built several churches in Boston, of which New North (built 1802–1804)

462-773: Was the Hollis Street Church (1788). Among his other early works are a memorial column on Beacon Hill (1789), the first monument to the American Revolution ; the Federal Street theater (1793); the " Tontine Crescent " (built 1793–1794, now demolished), fashioned in part after John Wood 's Royal Crescent ; the Old State House in Hartford, Connecticut (1796); and the Massachusetts State House (1798). He

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484-518: Was the idiom of America's first professional architects, such as Charles Bulfinch and Minard Lafever . Robert Adam and James Adam were leading influences through their books. In Salem, Massachusetts , there are numerous examples of American colonial architecture and Federal architecture in two historic districts: Chestnut Street District , which is part of the Samuel McIntire Historic District containing 407 buildings, and

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