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 36
TURY stories and a half, two rooms on a floor besides the kitchen, entry, and porchchamber over it.1 Although we are ignorant of the precise form of these first governors houses,we are so fortunate as to have in 16^8 most detailed prescriptions for the house ofanother official, Deputy-Governor… … From a photograph by The Halliday Historic Photograph Co. Figure 3. Scotch House (Boardman house), Saugus, Massachusetts. 1651 Concerning the frame of the house ... I am indiferent whether it be 30 foote or35 foote longe; 16 or 18 foote broade. I would have wood chimnyes at each end, theframes of…
Architecture, Domestic · Architecture, Colonial
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