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 238
story, of which we are speaking, and in thethird, are almost always very small compared with those usednow-a-days. They ^ire of oak—except, perhaps, in the Moorehouse, where all the framing visible is of hard pine — and areabout 2Y1 inches by 5. That is the exact size of them in thePatterson house,… … HALLCHAII^rR M RPAT EARLY CONNECTICUT HOUSES. 221 are logs square only on the upper sides. They are not framedinto the sills, but are built into the wall, as we have already ex-plained. They span the whole width of the cellar, as is the casealso where, as in the Painter liouse and the HoUister…
Architecture, Domestic · Historic buildings
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