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 93
oth brick and rubble. Increased warmthand weatherproofness seem to have been the principal reasons for its employmentrather than a desire to imitate stone. Even at Mount Pleasant (figure 39), after1761, where joints are ruled to resemble ashlar, the brick is revealed in quoins.No artistic objection… … From a photograph by H. P. Cook Figure 42. Tuckahoe direction. Cornices, window and door entramements, in masonry houses, with thefew exceptions noted, were ordinarily of wood, as was also the case in minor housesin England. Wood might be used for the whole fronts, to which the openings werechiefly…
