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 32
e thatwe live in, and wasmy father Talcotts, de-ceased, was built withthe porch that is, inthe year 1638, and thechimneys were built in1638. This first house wasno doubt a frame af-fair one story, or atthe most a story and ahalf, in height. Fromthe fact that the chimneys were built in 1638 it looks… … The-Talcutt cmt FKy Bvia i/i ^^^fJfla)) . 1 Hlc;UbE J.—Thli TALCOTi HoUSt l/lisloklD. The use of the plural chimneys does not mean more than one chimney in the sense in whichwe use the word. When Ialcott wrote this, the word chimney had not yet lost an earlier mean-ing of //iif which liad belonged…
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