Figure 48. — Paved floor of Room X, Stniciure E, showing HL door hinge 

 in foreground. (Sec fig. 8fla.) 



second room has a clay floor. The Stratford kitchen 

 is pa\ cd with ordinary bricks. Such examples can be 

 multiplied several times. 



The physical relationship of the kitchen to the main 

 house in \'irRinia plantations was dictated in part by 

 con\eniencc and in part by the Palladian plans that 

 c;o\erned the architecture of colonial mansions. 

 Structure E's relationship to Structure B is repre- 

 sentative of that existing between most kitchens and 

 their main buildings. Moinit N'ernon, Stratford. 

 Blandtield. Nomini Hall. Rosewell. and many other 

 plantations have, or had. kitchens locati*d at points 

 diagonal to the house and on axes at right angles to 

 them. L'sualK each was balanced by a dependeucv 

 placed in a simil.u' relationship to the op: 

 of the house. Sometimes covered walkw .1 

 the pairs of dependencies, ciirxcd as at Mount \"ernon. 



Mointt Airy, and Mannafield. or straight »s at Bl.iiid- 

 field in Essex County (1771). Marllxironnh, as wc 

 shall see. was not tvpical in its laxout. 'ii- 



ship |t'"l\v '"''ii kilt It'-n .nul lioiisr \\ .i u\ 



one. 



The tliKkiii' 

 the width of : , , 



As usual in th< 'he Icjwer cuunn of a founda- 



tion, the 

 fashion. I 



walls re\caled corners of bricks laid end to end so .i» 

 ,,, • .• • T- •• ■ 



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that headers and slrrtchrrs ap|>r.> >ii 



on the inside. These \-nriatinns protMlilv are due to 



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