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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 210

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Connecticut, and the oldest,is that at the north end of the Whitfield house at Guilford. Thisis built of roughly quarried stone laid in lime mortar, and nowcovered with cement stucco. It is very wide at the base, whereit projects some three feet from the end of the house; and as it 102 EARLY… … -*yf:;r ,;r.-^^-v;--■>■ FiGURF 90.—Chimney of Thoroughgood House. tresses, and which we usually associate with Gothic architect-ure. This off-setting of chimneys was common enough in Eng-land, and here, too, in brick and stone houses, though all othere.xamples in New England have disappeared. It…

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