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 72
nomy which in wooden houses of two-room plan with a masonry chimney led to its placing in the centre, in houses ofmasonry made chimneys in the end wall preferred. Thus it was characteristic ofthe brick house with gables, whether North or South, to have them terminate intall chimney-stacks. This was… … Figure 26. Roof framing of the Tufts houseFrom Carpentry and Building, vol. 6 (1884) as late as 1692, and in some ways more advanced in style. In the Slate Housethe chimneys were L-shaped. Aside from these the chimneys in the dated brickhouses are merely rectangular, and do not show features of…
Architecture, Domestic · Architecture, Colonial
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