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 88
e must understand that manyhouses lagged a generation behind in this or that respect, or even as a whole. Of the established materials of construction, masonry became more usual inthe eighteenth century for houses of importance. Wood continued to be the com-mon material for ordinary Colonial… … J Figure 37. Capital from the Hutchinsonhouse, Boston In the possession of the MassachusettsHistorical Society AMERICAN DOMESTIC ARCHITECTURE this must have been especially felt in the North, where the trouble from condensa-tion was greater. In any case, whereas in the Middle Colonies and the…
Architecture, Domestic · Architecture, Colonial
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