An architectural monograph on the seventeenth century Connecticut house (1919)
Eberlein, Harold Donaldson, Whitehead, Russell F. (Russell Fenimore), 1884-1954 · [St. Paul, White Pine Bureau] · leaf 12
g. Below the bracket, the post is dresseddown to far slimmer dimensions. With this formof overhang the projection is much less thanwhere there is a framed overhang and there areno turned or moulded drops. The girts wereoften elaborately chamfered on their lower outeredge and stopped with moulded… … Detail of Doorway. THE PHILO BISHOP HOUSK, GUILI-ORl), COiVNF.CTlCUT. that in manv later instances tiie hewn overhangdegenerated into mere lines of slight projectionacross the faces or ends of houses {vide Gold-smith house) and that the hewn brackets andchamfered girts wholly disappeared—a…
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