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 70
cons Castle, unique in America, thegables have the steps and cuspings of Jacobean England. In several of thehouses, however, forms prophetic of a coming day make their first appearance.Thus, in the Tufts house the main slopes of fifty-one degrees are sharply truncatedat the top—producing our… … Figure 24. The Province House. Boston. 1676 to 1679From S. A. Drake: Old Landmarks of Boston (1873) York.= This example should demonstrate, to all who know the history of Euro-pean architecture, that the form originated in the desire to reduce the height o\the mediaeval roof, especially over…
