Domestic architecture of the American colonies and of the early republic . igh authority ofMessrs. Dow and Millar—that singlecasements were employed throughoutfrom the start. Only two original doors of the seven-teenth century have come down to us,the more important being that of the JohnSheldon house in Deerfield, preserved bythe Pocumtuck Valley Memorial Asso-ciation for its role in the Indian attackof 1704 (figure 12). It is of wide boards,in two thicknesses, vertical outside, horizontal inside, studded with wrought nailsin diagonal lines, as was common in Part of a similar door w
Domestic architecture of the American colonies and of the early republic . igh authority ofMessrs. Dow and Millar—that singlecasements were employed throughoutfrom the start. Only two original doors of the seven-teenth century have come down to us,the more important being that of the JohnSheldon house in Deerfield, preserved bythe Pocumtuck Valley Memorial Asso-ciation for its role in the Indian attackof 1704 (figure 12). It is of wide boards,in two thicknesses, vertical outside, horizontal inside, studded with wrought nailsin diagonal lines, as was common in Part of a similar door was foundin restoring the Turner house, Salem. Doorheads with an ogee curve are shown 1 W. Pain, Builders Golden Rule, 3d ed. (1787), plate 91. : Quoted in F. L. Lees Scrap Book I, p. 191, at the Essex Institute. 3 Diary, vol. 2 (1907), pp. 115 and 172. 4 C. Shaw, Description of Boston (1817), p. 291. 5 J. F. Watson, Annals of Philadelphia (1830), p. 198. 6 R. Nevill, Old Cottage and Domestic Architecture, p. 41; Innocent, English Building Construction,figs. 63, 64. 28. 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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