Image: Domestic architecture of the American colonies and of the early republic (1922) (14801966123)

Description: Identifier: domesticarchite00kimb (find matches) Title: Domestic architecture of the American colonies and of the early republic Year: 1922 (1920s) Authors: Kimball, Fiske, 1888-1955 New York. Metropolitan Museum of Art. Committee on Education Subjects: Architecture, Domestic Architecture, Colonial Publisher: New York, C. Scribner's Sons Contributing Library: Smithsonian Libraries Digitizing Sponsor: Smithsonian Libraries View Book Page: Book Viewer About This Book: Catalog Entry View All Images: All Images From Book Click here to view book online to see this illustration in context in a browseable online version of this book. Text Appearing Before Image: Figure 9. Brick filling from the Wardhouse, Salem Courtesy of the Essex Institute THE SEVENTEENTH CENTURY daubings.1 Jasper Dankers wrote in 1679, Houses in Boston are made of thinsmall cedar shingles, nailed against frames and then filled with brick and otherstuff.2 No instance is definitely known of a framed building erected by theEnglish colonists in which the rilling of the frame was exposed on the exterioras half timber. Nevertheless, as Messrs. Isham and Brown have recognized,we do not need to assume that every house was clapboarded (or boarded) hereduring the first four or five years. A Moravian schoolhouse of exposed half- Text Appearing After Image: From a photograph by H, IVinsloiv Fegley Figure 10. Moravian schoolhouse, Oley Township, Pennsylvania. 1743 to 1745 timber, built 1743 to 1745,3 still stands in Oley Township, Berks County, Penn-sylvania (figure 10), and other buildings of the Pennsylvania Germans show thesame construction.4 One should not overlook that Symonds told Winthrop theinch board were to be tacked on only for the present as you tould me whichmight suggest that this covering was an addition recommended by experienceduring the first eight years of the colony. A reason for such an addition, besides 1 J. B. Felt, Annals of Salem (1827), p. 119. 2 Collections of the Long Island Historical Society, vol. 1 (1867), p. 394. 3 Daniel Miller, The Early Moravian Settlements in Berks County, in Transactions of the HistoricalSociety of Berks County, vol. 2 (1910), p. 318. 4 A. L. Kocher, Early Architecture of Pennsylvania, Architectural Record, vol. 49 (1921), pp. 31-47. 23 AMERICAN DOMESTIC ARCHITECTURE the greater severi Note About Images Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original work.
Title: Domestic architecture of the American colonies and of the early republic (1922) (14801966123)
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