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 39
close to the roof, serves to shedthe water and to prevent it from running down the face of thestack into the house. The thinness of the mass in proportion toits length or size in the direction of the ridge — a trait which ischaracteristic of these early chimneys — is quite noticeable here.The lack… … II. The Gleason House. Another old dwelling—which, after reaching the condition of astable, that last stage of existence through which the Clark housepassed, is now waiting a similar destruction — stands in the rear ofMr. Porters house on the east side of the main street of Farming-ton, about a…
Architecture, Domestic · Historic buildings
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