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 80
w. The framing of the roof is intact.There are four pairs of principal rafters — one pair over each girtcrossing the house, in the usual way — with purlins; but there areno collar-beams — a touch which seems to indicate New Haven in- 62 EARLY CONNECTICUT HOUSES. fluence. Above the roof the chimney… … This, \vc have said, is of what may be called tlie hewn type ; thatis to say, the posts—corner posts and all — are of one piece oftimber throurjhout their length. The size is taken in the secondstory, where the corner post, for instance, is fifteen inches square,and then the bracket which…
Architecture, Domestic · Historic buildings
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