By Herbert J. Githens
DIRECTION: Just east of the Barrow Mansion on Wayne Street
is a group of seven townhouses known as Hampton
Court.
These fine townhouses stand in stark contrast to the style
of the Barrow Mansion. They date to before 1887 and are
representative of the ornate Eastlake manner. Mechanized
processes are evident in the cast-iron stoop-balustrade and
in the use of ceramic tile and mechanically-routed decorations
in the stonework. The tiles are arranged in varying geometric
patterns and located under the windows of the first and second
floors, very tops of the gables, and continuous belt course
at the top of the second-floor windows. The decorative
treatment of the stone does not copy natural forms but abstracts
them through mechanical processes. Eastlake wrote that
"Nature may be typified or symbolized, but not actually
imitated."
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