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erica: John James, of Green-wich, who was in Boston in the late seventeen thirties. Despite traditionalstatements that a given house was designed by some famous English architect, orwas copied from some English building, no authentic instance is known of a housein the Colonial period for which the… … Figure 31. Elevation of a town houseFrom Joseph Moxon: Mechanick Exercises (1700) ^ R. A. Lancaster, Historic Virginia Homes (1915), p. 54. -Tryon to the Earl of Shelburne, January 31, 1767, in Colonial Records of North Carolina, vol. 7 (1890), p. 431. 55 AMERICAN DOMESTIC ARCHITECTURE making of…