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 29
aving low 1 Letter to the Countess of Lincoln, reprinted in P. Forces Tracts, vol. 2 (1838), IV, p. 19. For otherallusions to early English huts as wigwams see Memoirs of Captain Roger Clap in A. Youngs Chron-icles ... of Massachusetts (1846), p. 351; J. Winthrops History of New England (1825 ed.),… … Figure 1. Charcoal burners hutSouth YorkshireCourtesy of C. F. Innocent THE SEVENTEENTH CENTURY walls of branches and earth, and the ridge-pole lashed to vertical, forked poles,with intermediate poles covered with sods1 (figure 2). The Cratchets whichSmith alludes to, otherwise crotchets, were the…
Architecture, Domestic · Architecture, Colonial
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