Domestic architecture of the American colonies and of the early republic (1922) (14801960913)

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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of a framed house for an artisan is that of one to be 1 Collections of the Massachusetts Historical Society, 4th ser., vol. 7 (1865), pp. 118-120. 2 Governor Theophilus Eaton, Reverend John Davenport, Isaac Allerton, and Thomas Gregson. Stiles,History of . . . the Judges of Charles I (1794), p. 64, cited and discussed by Isham and Brown, Con-necticut Houses, pp. no—in. 3 History of New England, Collections of the Mass. Hist. Soe, 2d ser., vol. 6 (1815), p. 334. 4 See the individual discussion of the Eaton house below. 12 THE SEVENTEENTH CENTURY built by John Davys, joiner, for William Rix, a weaver, in 1640—for whichThomas Lech ford preserved the contract in his Note Book: One framed house 16 foot long & 14 foote wyde, w a chamber floare finisht,summer & ioysts, a cellar floare wth ioysts finisht, the roofe and walles Clap-boarded on the outsyde, the Chimney framed without dawbing to be done withhewen timber.1 In other words this was a story-and-a-half house with a single
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Figure 4. Whipple house, Ipswich, Massachusetts. Western part before 1669, eastern part before 1682 Courtesy of the White Pine Bureau room in each story. The contract price was £21. Such were the great majorityof the oldest existing houses of Providence Plantation, as well as some of those ofNewport and Narragansett.2 Such too were the initial portions of some stillstanding in Massachusetts, for instance the John Balch house in Beverly.3 InConnecticut, where lew examples are preserved—even in Hartford where there are 1 Transactions of the American Antiquarian Society, vol. 7 (1885), p. 302. 2 Isham and Brown, Rhode Island Houses, passim. 3 67. the drawing b_y Isham in Bulletin of the Society for the Preservation of New England Antiquities, no. 15(1916), p. 10. 13 AMERICAN DOMESTIC ARCHITECTURE none—Norman Isham recognizes the type as one which appeared as an inferioror temporary dwelling. The Ipswich records show that houses of this type andsize were commonly erected in Massachus