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 63
s laid out, and within three years many makers were at work.2 Only inRhode Island was brickmaking long delayed.3 Contradicting the oft-repeated assertion about old houses, that the bricks werebrought from England or from Holland, is the universal consensus of students ofthe records that importation… … From a photograph by H. P. Cool! Figure 18. Warren house, Smiths Fort, Virginia, as it standsto-day. 1651 or 1652 Browne says: It is doubtful whether a single house was built of imported brick. 5A single case in New Haven, itself perhaps questionable, is, according to Isham,the only instance we…
Architecture, Domestic · Architecture, Colonial
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