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 60
as laid out, and within three years many makers were at work.- Only inRhode Island was brickmaking long delayed.^ Contradicting the oft-repeated assertion about old houses, that the bricks werebrought from England or from Holland, is the universal consensus of students ofthe records that… … From a photograph by H, P. Cook Figure i8. Warren house, Smiths Fort, Virginia, as it standsto-day. 1651 or 1652 Browne says: It is doubtful whether a single house was built of imported brick. ^A single case in New Haven, itself perhaps questionable, is, according to Isham,the only instance we know…
