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 42
single room in each of two full stories;the Scotch House, the Corwin and Capen houses, 1651 to 1683, were ot tworooms in a story. Many houses originally of one-room plan were subsequentlylengthened beyond the chimney: the Pickering house about 1671, the Whipplehouse before 1682, the Hooper house… … Figure 6. John Ward house, Salem. After 1684Courtesy of the Essex Institute the two. Symonds wrote in 1638, make one biger than the other. In theTurner, Whipple, Capen, Ward, and Hunt houses, at least, this is the case. Suchmediaeval tolerance of asymmetry persisted long after the abandonment of…
Architecture, Domestic · Architecture, Colonial
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