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 56
it was inevitable that the early framed houses of America should be sur-vivals fundamentally mediaeval. For a generalization regarding the course of development within the type, ourstudy of the chronological evolution of single elements gives us a wealth of authen-tic material hitherto unavailable.… … Figure i6. Bond Castle on Chesapeake BayCourtesy of Mrs. Annie Leakin Sioussat tional features.^ The overhang, regarded by them as a conspicuous example ofthis, we have seen, in rigorously dated Massachusetts examples, to give no justi-fication for such a view. Other specific features of the houses…