Domestic architecture of the American colonies and of the early republic, (1922)
Kimball, Fiske, 1888-1955, Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.). Committee on Education · New York, C. Scribner's Sons · leaf 104
three stories high,with a garret, a flat roof (/. ^., a deck) and balustrade.^ At Charleston the RobertBrewton house, built before 1733, had three stories, which were not uncommonthere henceforth. In the less closely built towns their coming was slower: at Salemthere are datable examples (Orne and… … Figure 55. Diagram of a curb roofFrom William Pain; The Practical House Carpenter front of the old Usher house in Medford by Isaac Royall, between 1733 and 1737,so that it had three stories on that side, to one on the west (figure 19). Later thewest front was raised to an equal height. From the…
