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 35
of the Eaton house below. 12 THE SEVENTEENTH CENTURY built by John Davys, joiner, tor William Rix, a weaver, in 1640—for whichThomas Lechtord preserved the contract in his Note Book: One framed house 16 foot long & 14 foote wyde, w* a chamber floare finisht,summer & ioysts, a cellar floare… … Figure 4. Whipple house, Ipswich, Massachusetts. Western part before 1669, eastern part before 1682 Courtes) of the White Pine Bureau room in each story. The contract price was £21. Such were the great majorityof the oldest existing houses of Providence Plantation, as well as some of those…
