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 47
For comparison we may cite the description of the early houses at Germantown, Pennsylvania, byJ. F. Watson, Annals of Philadelphia, 2d ed. (1844), vol. 2, p. 19: Some old houses seem to be made withlog frames and the interstices filled with wattles, river rushes, and clay intermixed. 4 Isham and… … Figure 9. Brick filling from the Wardhouse, Salem Courtesy of the Essex Institute THE SEVENTEENTH CENTURY daubings.1 Jasper Dankers wrote in 1679, Houses in Boston are made of thinsmall cedar shingles, nailed against frames and then filled with brick and otherstuff.2 No instance is definitely known…
Architecture, Domestic · Architecture, Colonial
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