Domestic architecture of the American colonies and of the early republic . covering was commonly usedwithin a few years of the settlement can-not be doubted. Symondss house in 1638 was, as we have seen, to be coveredwith very good oak-hart inch board, and was to have the walls without to beall clapboarded beside the clay walls. The contract for the building of thechurch at Salem in 1639 called for it to be covered with 1% plank and withboard upon that to meet close, as well as to be sufficientlie finished with 1 English Building Construction, p. 154. 2 lb., p. 156. 3 For comparison we may cite
Domestic architecture of the American colonies and of the early republic . covering was commonly usedwithin a few years of the settlement can-not be doubted. Symondss house in 1638 was, as we have seen, to be coveredwith very good oak-hart inch board, and was to have the walls without to beall clapboarded beside the clay walls. The contract for the building of thechurch at Salem in 1639 called for it to be covered with 1% plank and withboard upon that to meet close, as well as to be sufficientlie finished with 1 English Building Construction, p. 154. 2 lb., p. 156. 3 For comparison we may cite the description of the early houses at Germantown, Pennsylvania, byJ. F. Watson, Annals of Philadelphia, 2d ed. (1844), vol. 2, p. 19: Some old houses seem to be made withlog frames and the interstices filled with wattles, river rushes, and clay intermixed. 4 Isham and Brown, Connecticut Houses, p. 198, where the house is spoken of as the Roger Williams house. 5 lb., p. 248, quoting Oliver Ellsworth, Jr., from Stiles, Ancient Windsor, vol. 1, p. 142. 6 lb., p. 181. 22. Figure 9. Brick filling from the Wardhouse, Salem Courtesy of the Essex Institute THE SEVENTEENTH CENTURY Jasper Dankers wrote in 1679, Houses in Boston are made of thinsmall cedar shingles, nailed against frames and then filled with brick and 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-
Size: 1412px × 1769px
Photo credit: © The Reading Room / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
Model Released: No
Keywords: ., bookcentury1900, bookdecade1920, booksubjectarchite, bookyear1922
