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 68
652, Flemish bond is used, andit appears in the chimney at Fairfield, 1692. In New England the Usher-Royallhouse, throughout its brick ends, has three courses of stretchers followed by oneof headers. In Philadelphia Flemish bond was used from the establishment of thecity, at least in the best… … Figure 23. The Slate House, Philadelphia From the original drawing for Watsons Annals of Philadelphia, 1830 Courtesy of the Library Company of Philadelphia in wooden houses, an elongated rectangular mass with a steep gable roof was usual.It was not uncommon to have but two rooms on a floor, as in…
