Domestic architecture of the American colonies and of the early republic (1922) (14801966123)

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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Figure 9. Brick filling from the Wardhouse, Salem Courtesy of the Essex Institute THE SEVENTEENTH CENTURY daubings.1 Jasper Dankers wrote in 1679, Houses in Boston are made of thinsmall cedar shingles, nailed against frames and then filled with brick and otherstuff.2 No instance is definitely known of a framed building erected by theEnglish colonists in which the rilling of the frame was exposed on the exterioras half timber. Nevertheless, as Messrs. Isham and Brown have recognized,we do not need to assume that every house was clapboarded (or boarded) hereduring the first four or five years. A Moravian schoolhouse of exposed half-
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From a photograph by H, IVinsloiv Fegley Figure 10. Moravian schoolhouse, Oley Township, Pennsylvania. 1743 to 1745 timber, built 1743 to 1745,3 still stands in Oley Township, Berks County, Penn-sylvania (figure 10), and other buildings of the Pennsylvania Germans show thesame construction.4 One should not overlook that Symonds told Winthrop theinch board were to be tacked on only for the present as you tould me whichmight suggest that this covering was an addition recommended by experienceduring the first eight years of the colony. A reason for such an addition, besides 1 J. B. Felt, Annals of Salem (1827), p. 119. 2 Collections of the Long Island Historical Society, vol. 1 (1867), p. 394. 3 Daniel Miller, The Early Moravian Settlements in Berks County, in Transactions of the HistoricalSociety of Berks County, vol. 2 (1910), p. 318. 4 A. L. Kocher, Early Architecture of Pennsylvania, Architectural Record, vol. 49 (1921), pp. 31-47. 23 AMERICAN DOMESTIC ARCHITECTURE the greater severi