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 63
as laid out, and within three years many makers were at work. Only inRhode Island was brickmaking long delayed. Contradicting the oft-repeated assertion about old houses, that the bricks werebrought from England or from Holland, is the universal consensus of students ofthe records that importation… … Figure 18. Wiirren house. Smiths Fort, Virginia, as it standsto-day. 1651 or 1652 Browne says: It is doubtful whether a single house was built of imported brick. ■A single case in New Haven, itself perhaps questionable, is, according to Isham,the only instance we know in New England, except for the…
