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 59
it was inevitable that the early framed houses of America should be sur-vivals fundamentally mediaeval. For a generalization regarding the course of development within the type, ourstudy of the chronological evolution of single elements gives us a wealth of authen-tic material hitherto unavailable.… … Figure 16. Bond Castle on Chesapeake BayCourtesy of Mrs. Annie Leakin Sioussat tional features.1 The overhang, regarded by them as a conspicuous example ofthis, we have seen, in rigorously dated Massachusetts examples, to give no justi-fication for such a view. Other specific features of the houses…
Architecture, Domestic · Architecture, Colonial
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