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 232
DLTAID - GllATn TOE!4 1 214 EARLY CONNECTICUT HOUSES. The skill of the old carpenter is most apparent where it wastested most severely, and this, outside the overhangs, occurred atthe top of the post, where the third-story girts met the plate.The strange-looking and complicated but really brilliant… … /iKOATTllou^E: Figure 96. post iT in the Gleason house. A peculiarity here is the cuttingdown of the head of the post to form a seat for each beam, leav-ing thereby a square projection in the angle. This occurs inRhode Island and in some Massachusetts work, but it is not com-mon in Connecticut. We…
Architecture, Domestic · Historic buildings
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