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 30
nd 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 posts with a forked top—char-acteristic elements of primitive house construction in England.2 Another very rudimentary type is… … Figure 2. Bark-peelers hut, High FurnessFrom Transactions of the Cumberland and Westmoreland Antiquarian Society, vol. 16 (1901)Courtesy of W. G. Collingwood and H. S. Cowper casting the Earth aloft upon Timber; they make a smoaky fire against the Earthat its highest side . . . yet in these poor…
Architecture, Domestic · Architecture, Colonial
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