Domestic architecture of the American colonies and of the early republic (1922)
Kimball, Fiske, 1888-1955, Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.). Committee on Education · New York : C. Scribner's Sons · leaf 110
ion, Boston, 1792, pis. 4, 5; etc. 84 THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY is mitred against the facade without turning the corner. It was m Graeme Park(figure 57) and in the Hancock house (figure 58) that a more academic treatmentwas first used, a short horizontal return on the gable-end, which became… … East l-leralion Scafe * Jftr/t /o f//oo/. Figure 58. Hancock house, Boston. East elevation From a measured drawmg by John Sturgis Courtesy of R. Clipston Sturgis height, occurs in several instances. This form of roof, sometimes called the jerkin-head, is spoken of in estimates for the Pinckney…
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