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House & Garden 
The Variety of Fanlights 
(Continued from page 69) 
the criticism that the fanlight had be- the middle of the 18th Century, and 
come all fan and no light. from thence onward, when Strawberry 
The seemingly endless variation in fan- Hill Gothic and Chippendale Gothic 
lights is due in part to the general trend had gained a hold on popular imagina- 
of architectural change with the passage tion, appeared a greater diversity of 
of time, in part to peculiarities of local motifs, some of them very ingenious 
usage, and in part to the fertile inven- and pleasing. The straight radiating 
tion of individual designers. Most of divisions were often dispensed with and 
the earlier fanlights, dating from the in their stead we find arrangements of 
first sixty years of the 18th Century, circles, intersecting curved lines, and 
display robust divisions and a general other engaging patterns. The divisions 
vigorous simplicity of pattern. About themselves in this period were common- 
Late 18 th Century fanlight 
with cast iron glazing bars 
and molded lead swags 
A mid-\8th Century semi-cir- The half-oval fanlight is often 
cular fanlight based on the found in late 18th Century work 
radiating motif in this country 
Another half-oval design with 
radiating bars in shape of a vase 
—a graceful variation 
In early 19 th Century work one often find's the fanlight 
set in a rectangular overdoor opening. This example is 
from a house in Salem, N. J. 
