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 48
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 of a framed building erected by theEnglish colonists in which the rilling of the frame was exposed on the exterioras half timber.… … From a photograph by H, IVinsloiv Fegley Figure 10. Moravian schoolhouse, Oley Township, Pennsylvania. 1743 to 1745 timber, built 1743 to 1745,3 still stands in Oley Township, Berks County, Penn-sylvania (figure 10), and other buildings of the Pennsylvania Germans show thesame construction.4 One…
Architecture, Domestic · Architecture, Colonial
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