Domestic architecture of the American colonies and of the early republic (1922) (14781758362)

Identifier: domesticarchite00kimb (find matches)
Title: Domestic architecture of the American colonies and of the early republic
Year: 1922 (1920s)
Authors: Kimball, Fiske, 1888-1955 New York. Metropolitan Museum of Art. Committee on Education
Subjects: Architecture, Domestic Architecture, Colonial
Publisher: New York, C. Scribner's Sons
Contributing Library: Smithsonian Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: Smithsonian Libraries



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i photograph by f nd Mary Allen Figure 12. Door of the Sheldon house. Deer-field, Massachusetts. Before 1704 THE SEVENTEENTH CENTURY iv old views of the Parkman house, built between 1673 and 1682, and the GovernorBradstreet house1 there, from the same general period. The interior face of the frame walls during the seventeenth century, in mostof the New England colonies, was frequently sheathed with wide boards, groovedtogether and often chamfered or moulded at the joints, and similar sheathing wasused for partitions (figure 13). In England such boarding, generally vertical, was
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Copyright by the Topsjieid Historical Society Figure 13. Parlor of the Capen house, Topsheld common in partitions of mediaeval and Renaissance buildings.2 On outer wallsit was horizontal, on partition walls, generally vertical; and the differences seemto have been matters of local variety rather than of developmental sequence. Theearliest record occurs in the well-known passage of Winthrops journal regardingThomas Dudleys house at Cambridge: The governor having formerly told him,that he did not well to bestow such care about wainscoting and adorning his house, 1 Water-color painting at the Essex Institute, probably painted by Barthole in 1819. The house wasdemolished by 1755. See the discussion by R. S. Rantoul in Historical Collections of the Essex Institute,vol. 24 (1887), pp. 247-248. 2 Innocent, English Building Construction, pp. 114-115, fig. 44. AMERICAN DOMESTIC ARCHITECTURE in the beginning of a plantation . . . his answer now was, that it was for thewarmth of his house, and t