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 213
to be put into use again. The chimneys of the Sheldon Woodbridge house are in theend walls, and here, as we have already explained, the north wallis practically only the back of the stack. In this north wall wefind the earliest remaining example of the use of the blue headersto which we referred in… … set lensthwise in the wall — and then come two courses laid inFlemish bond, that is with the stretchers and headers — brickswith their length across the wall — in alternation. The bond isso arranged, too, that the headers in the upper course come overthe centers of the stretchers of the lower…
Architecture, Domestic · Historic buildings
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