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 76
undamentally mediaeval methods offraming, and even a vestige of the overhanging stories, were retained until 1730or even 1750. The most notable instances of such survivals occur in the buildingsof the German sectarians of Pennsylvania, especially the monastic buildings atEphrata (figure 29). The… … }-rom a pHotogtiipii ny J.ini- L. Liniiurt Figure 29. Porch of the Sister House, Ephrata, Pennsylvania AMERICAN DOMESTIC ARCHITECTURE together without iron for ritual reasons, and filled with stones and clay, beneaththe boarding or stucco. The steep roofs and small windows, the illuminated textsof…
