Domestic architecture of the American colonies and of the early republic (1922)
Kimball, Fiske, 1888-1955, New York. Metropolitan Museum of Art. Committee on Education · New York, C. Scribner's Sons · leaf 110
on, Boston, 1792, pis. 4, 5; etc. 84 THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY is mitred against the facade without turning the corner. It was in Graeme Park(figure 57) and in the Hancock house (figure 58) that a more academic treatmentwas first used, a short horizontal return on the gable-end, which became… … height, occurs in several instances. This form of roof, sometimes called the jerkin-head, is spoken of in estimates tor the Pinckney house in Charleston (figure 66) asa hippd wall roof, and again as a snug dutch roof. 1 In the earliest examplessoon after 1700—the Charles Read house (London…
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