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 54
struction,figs. 63, 64 28 THE SEVENTEENTH CENTURY in old views of the Parkman house, built between 1673 and 1682, and the GovernorBradstreet house there, from the same general period. The interior face of the frame walls during the seventeenth century, in mostof the New England colonies, was… … Figure 13. Parlor of the Capen house, Topsfield common in partitions of mediaeval and Renaissance buildings. On outer wallsit was horizontal, on partition walls, generally vertical; and the differences seemto have been matters of local variety rather than of developmental sequence. Theearliest…
