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 94
rt and convenience.The ordinary number both of living-rooms and of bedrooms was increased. Kitchenand hall, parlor and bedroom, were no longer combined in houses of any preten-sions. Beyond this, however, differentiation in the functions ot rooms was slow,as it had been abroad. It is difficult to… … Figure 43. The Mulberry, Goose Creek. South Carolina. Between 1708 and 1725 Courtesy of Ulrich B. Phillips tew cases show that the uses were somewhat indeterminate. Thus the contract forthe Ayrault house in Newport, 1739, speaks of the Front Rooms . . . with aBoffet in the biggest of them.…
