Domestic architecture of the American colonies and of the early republic . rfect Descrip-tion of Virginia in 1649 speaks of houses covered with Shingell for In the early houses of frame, and in many long afterward, the chimneys wereconstructed of wood and clay. In Massachusetts, although Dudley wrote in 1631,in our new towne intended to be builded, we haue ordered that noe man thereshall build his chimney with wood . .,9 Symonds proposed wood for his chim- 1 Connecticut Houses, p. 230, notes. 2 Waters, Homes of the Puritans, Historical Collections of the Essex Institute, vol. 33 (1897),
Domestic architecture of the American colonies and of the early republic . rfect Descrip-tion of Virginia in 1649 speaks of houses covered with Shingell for In the early houses of frame, and in many long afterward, the chimneys wereconstructed of wood and clay. In Massachusetts, although Dudley wrote in 1631,in our new towne intended to be builded, we haue ordered that noe man thereshall build his chimney with wood . .,9 Symonds proposed wood for his chim- 1 Connecticut Houses, p. 230, notes. 2 Waters, Homes of the Puritans, Historical Collections of the Essex Institute, vol. 33 (1897), p. 51. 3 Weeden, Economic History of New England, p. 214, W. Chase, Haverhill (1861), p. 115. ; Innocent, English Building Construction, pp. 184-185; also W. Leyburn, A Compendium of the Artof Building (1734), which speaks of them as very chargeable. 6 Connecticut Houses, pp. 249-251. 7 History of New England (1825 ed.), vol. 2, p. 264. 8 Force, Tracts, vol. 2 (1838), VIII, p. 7. 9 Collections of the Massachusetts Historical Society, 1st ser., vol. 8, p. Figure 11. Rough-castornament from the Brownehouse, Salem. After 1664 Courtesy of the EssexInstitute 25 AMERICAN DOMESTIC ARCHITECTURE neys in 1638, as we have seen; William Rixs chimney in 1640 was to be framedwithout dawbing to be done with hewen timber; and George Nortons new housein 1656, otherwise like a certain house with brick chimneys, was to have instead,sufficiently catted In Connecticut chimneys of wood and clay werein use in 1639, and may have persisted until 1706 when the last chimney-viewer ofHartford was That they still commonly existed outside of New Englandeven after the Revolution may be inferred from reiterated observations by Wash-ington during his tour of the eastern states in 1789, after leaving New York, thatno dwelling house is seen without a Stone or Brick Isham recog-nized that they were not so much a makeshift of the frontier as many imagine,4and Innocent
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