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Carrington House, Porch
12016-08-31T11:36:04-07:00Andrea Ledesma3398f082e76a2c1c8a9101d91a66e1d764540d3484012The porch of the Carrington House, as seen from the street in Providence, Rhode Islandplain2016-09-21T09:23:29-07:0020525320160707CCTV News2052532016070712142417373320160720204126204126Andrea Ledesma3398f082e76a2c1c8a9101d91a66e1d764540d34
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1media/Corliss-Carrington_House,_Providence_RI_2012.jpg2016-05-04T15:30:50-07:00The Carrington House9plain2019-08-11T10:46:44-07:00Edward Carrington’s house is one example among many early republic homes exhibiting a seamless aesthetic blend of republican simplicity and global ambition—the “global” being typically manifest in specific design elements associated with a newly encountered tropical world. In the parlor visitors saw an assortment of East Asian furnishings amidst Grecian urns and the heavy broken-scroll pediments of the fireplace mantle. . Hand-painted Chinese wallpaper covers the walls with peacocks, a traditional Chinese motif as well as an element of the Carrington family’s European coat of arms. Stepping outside, we see how the very façade of the house interweaves these seemingly contradictory elements. Carrington’s custom two-story front porch exhibits the Ionic and Corinthian columns of the neoclassical fashion, yet the porch itself is totally unusual in New England, “exotic” even, mimicking French colonial homes in the West Indies or, more likely, the double balconies of the hong factories in Canton where Carrington had worked—the architecture of hot and humid places. Early republic Americans habitually conflated the Caribbean, South Seas, and Asian exotic into one sphere that included a so-called “East Indies.”
