Domestic architecture of the American colonies and of the early republic . Figure 19. Usher (Royall) house, Medford, Massachusetts. Plan, section, and elevation of south endFrom the Medford Historical Register, vol. 3 (1900)Courtesy of John H. Hooper and Moses Whitcher Mann in a given building, and complete freedom at any given time irrespective of thenumerous statutes intended to secure standardization. The first use of brick was for chimneys, and houses wholly of brick were sometime in making their appearance, in spite of demands for them on the part of thehome government in the case of Virg
Domestic architecture of the American colonies and of the early republic . Figure 19. Usher (Royall) house, Medford, Massachusetts. Plan, section, and elevation of south endFrom the Medford Historical Register, vol. 3 (1900)Courtesy of John H. Hooper and Moses Whitcher Mann in a given building, and complete freedom at any given time irrespective of thenumerous statutes intended to secure standardization. The first use of brick was for chimneys, and houses wholly of brick were sometime in making their appearance, in spite of demands for them on the part of thehome government in the case of Virginia. According to The New Life of Vir-ginia, 1612, the houses at Henrico had the first storie all of bricks, 4 although,as we have seen, Hamor spoke of them as well framed houses. In 16j8 Richard 1 E. H. Hall, Philipse Manor Hall (1912), pp. 211-212. 2 L. G. Tyler, in the article cited above, and D. Millar: Some Colonial and Georgian Houses, vol. I(1916), introduction, alike suggest that the phrases English brick and Dutch brick had reference to thekind or size of bric
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