An architectural monograph on New England colonial houses, (1915)
Brown, Frank Chouteau, 1876-1947, Whitehead, Russell F. (Russell Fenimore), 1884-1954 · [St. Paul, White Pine Bureau] · leaf 8
, intended toprotect the top of thewindow-case, which wasprojected beyond theframe of the building andapplied to its face in theold-fashioned way. Thesemolded caps were crownedby a sloping member, care-fully hewn and shapedfrom one heavy log ofwood so as to providea sloping wash acrossthe top and… … Later in the i8th cen-tury, the American build-ers began to secure the■ Carpenters Handbooks,first published in Englandabout 17s5, and from thesethey developed new de-tails far more easily, merelyadapting them to the some-what simplified conditionsand requirements of theAmerican village or townin…
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