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 47
156. For comparison we may cite the description of the early houses at Germantown, Pennsylvania, byJ. F. Watson, Annals of Philadelphia, 2d ed. (1844), vol. 2, p. 19: Some old houses seem to be made withlog frames and the interstices filled with wattles, river rushes, and clay intermixed. ^ Isham… … Figure 9. Brick filling from the Wardhouse, Salem Courtesy of the Essex Institute 11 THE SEVENTEENTH CENTURY daubings.^ Jasper Bankers wrote in 1679, Houses in Boston are made of thinsmall cedar shingles, nailed against frames and then filled with brick and otherstuff.- No instance is definitely…
