Early Connecticut houses; an historical and architectural study (1900)
Isham, Norman Morrison, 1864-1943, Brown, Albert F. (Albert Frederic), b. 1862 · Providence, R.I. : The Preston and Rounds company · leaf 182
d story. The chamfer of this summer is a 164 EARLY CONNECTICUT HOUSES. filleted quarter-round, and the slop is unique. The southern andwestern walls are thickened and are filled with brick and eel-grass.The north wall, once the outside wall of the house, was treatedin the same manner. The post… … Figure 8j front, as the perspective shows. The rafter in the western gablewas left in its old place and a new rafter put in above it. Theother rafters were treated differently. The collar beams were pulledout of their mortises in the front rafters and these were thenspread, turning on the pins at…
Architecture, Domestic · Historic buildings
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