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 76
ndamentally mediaeval methods offraming, and even a vestige of the overhanging stories, were retained until 1730or even 1750. The most notable instances of such survivals occur in the buildingsof the German sectarians of Pennsylvania, especially the monastic buildings atEphrata (figure 29). The… … AMERICAN DOMESTIC ARCHITECTURE together without iron for ritual reasons, and filled with stones and clay, beneaththe boarding or stucco. The steep roofs and small windows, the illuminated textsof the interior, the picturesque porches, have an old-world air which is unique onthis side of the ocean.…
Architecture, Domestic · Architecture, Colonial
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