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Contains 10 Results:

Set 1, "Plans for a House for South Carolina", 1811

 File — Box: 1, Folder: 1
Scope and Contents

Consists of one floor plan and four elevations. Also includes designs for a villa with one tall story on a high basement. The plan shows two apse-ended rooms, and it has structural details for the roof. The ground floor has elliptical arches. A hipped roof is partially concealed by a parapet with a Doric entablature. The front door surround has Doric columns, and a piazza has slender Doric columns.

Dates: 1811

Set 2, Designs for a country house, 1811

 File — Box: 1, Folder: 2
Scope and Contents

Designs are initialed "J. I. M. 1811. No.2" and includes two plans and one elevation. This two-story house has a high basement and a hipped roof fronted by a parapet with a dentil cornice. The plans show four apse ended rooms and one circular room. A semi-circular porch has slender Ionic columns and a pair of curving steps.

Dates: 1811

Set 3, Designs for a greenhouse, 1813, undated

 File — Box: 1, Folder: 3
Scope and Contents

Designs are initialed "J. I. M. 1813" and includes three sheets of elevations with one in ink and watercolor and the other two in pencil. The main elevation has four Roman Doric columns in antis with glass in between, and a Palladian window is at one end of the building.

Dates: 1813, undated

Set 4, Designs for a country house with two stories on a low basement, undated

 File — Box: 1, Folder: 4
Scope and Contents

Consists of three plans, three elevations, and one section. The main front has a one-story Roman Doric portico, and each side has a semi-hexagonal projection. An alternative plan and elevation are included.

Dates: undated

Set 5, Designs for a country house with two stories and a monumental Roman Doric portico with four columns, circa 1810

 File — Box: 1, Folder: 5
Scope and Contents

Consists of one plan and elevations. The back of the house has a pair of semi-hexagonal projections. The plan has an elliptical staircase and a built-in bath tub with cisterns.

Dates: circa 1810

Set 6, Designs for a country house with two stories, circa 1810

 File — Box: 1, Folder: 6
Scope and Contents

Includes two plans and two sheets of elevations. This house is basically L-shaped, and it was given two main fronts: what appears to be the land side has a one-story Roman Doric portico (with a door opening into a central hall), and what may be a river front has a two-story Roman Doric portico (giving a one-room wing the appearance of a temple-form building). The plan shows an oval staircase and a built-in bath tub.

Dates: circa 1810

Set 7, Elevation for flanking wings, 1809 February 4

 File — Box: 1, Folder: 7
Scope and Contents In the center of this single drawing is a two-story house marked "The Ground of Old House." It appears to date from circa 1790, and it has a high basement, a tall hipped roof, and a one story porch with a slightly projecting portico. Walker designed alternatives for a pair of adjacent wings. Both wings have round projecting bays, and one bay has three windows and the other a Palladin window. Both wings were to have a high basement to match the house, but mezzanine floors rather than a full...
Dates: 1809 February 4

Set 8, Designs to enlarge Middleton Place, 1864

 File — Box: 1, Folder: 8
Scope and Contents

Four pencil sketches including one marked "Plan for altering and adding to Middleton Place. Front view. W. M. 1864." These designs relate to others which were prepared for Williams Middleton in 1863 by a builder Fred J. Smith, and they were intended to be used to greatly enlarge Middleton Place and to change its style to resemble 17th century Dutch architecture.

Dates: 1864

Set 9, Miscellaneous drawings, undated

 File — Box: 1, Folder: 9
Scope and Contents

Includes two measured architectural drawings are for a stable, one sheet of measured drawings for a gate (since an alternative has a large "M," the designs may be for Middleton Place), and a perspective drawing in ink and watercolor of a Cambridge, England, street scene including Great St. Mary's Church, medieval houses, and 18th century store fronts. Also includes color wheel in pencil and watercolor.

Dates: undated

Set 10, Maps of the Eastern United States, 1867

 File — Box: 1, Folder: 10
Scope and Contents

Maps of the Eastern United States drawn by Henry Middleton Jun[io]r. 1867. One map is of the New England states, and the other is of states from New York to North Carolina. These pencil drawings appear to have been based on printed atlas plates.

Dates: 1867