The North Carolina booklet : great events in North Carolina history . rnside and one on. the eastern. The house has thirty large win-dows, showing that light and ventilation were much desired,even in Colonial days. All the windows of the first storyhave solid shutters and fasten with a large-headed bolt andslotted stick. The windows of the second and third storiesare lower boarded and fasten with hooks. The house waspainted v/hite with green shutters and trimmings. The roof,which is nearly square pitched and has ornaments in the gables, has been covered severaltimes, and is said to have beenor
The North Carolina booklet : great events in North Carolina history . rnside and one on. the eastern. The house has thirty large win-dows, showing that light and ventilation were much desired,even in Colonial days. All the windows of the first storyhave solid shutters and fasten with a large-headed bolt andslotted stick. The windows of the second and third storiesare lower boarded and fasten with hooks. The house waspainted v/hite with green shutters and trimmings. The roof,which is nearly square pitched and has ornaments in the gables, has been covered severaltimes, and is said to have beenoriginally covered with shinglescut round at the ends. Thereis a gable at the front, and onthe gable ornament there are inraised letters: F. G.—1758. There is no doubt that thewhole house, with few excep-tions, is built from native whiteand yellow pine (p), especiallysince that wood was most abund-ant here and most used (q). It is certain that the timber wasnot cut in England and imported, for we had water-powersawmills in America as early as 1634(r). Indeed we had. (p) White and j^ellow pine in N. C. (Lawsons History of N. C,page 56). (q) Pine most used at that time (same reference). (r) Sawmills in America before in England (Encyclopedia Ameri-cana, Vol. XIV). THE CUPOLA HOUSE 207 sawmills here capable of cutting two thousand feet per day be-fore there were any in England. The bricks were also nativemade, for Lawson in his history, mentions that bricks andtiles were made here in 1Y14, and that in building withbricks, the people used lime made from oyster shells (s). Thenails are hand wrought and were probably made here. Eventhe glass was probably made in America, for there were glassworks in Virginia in 1608, and in Pennsylvania in 1683(^). The house has eight by ten inch heart sills, resting onbrick piers eight inches thick and twenty inches high; threeby ten inch joists in first story and two by ten inch joistsin second story—all joists being spaced twenty-four inchesapar
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