Identifier: domesticarchite00kimb (find matches)
Title: Domestic architecture of the American colonies and of the early republic
Year: 1922 (1920s)
Authors: Kimball, Fiske, 1888-1955 New York. Metropolitan Museum of Art. Committee on Education
Subjects: Architecture, Domestic Architecture, Colonial
Publisher: New York, C. Scribner's Sons
Contributing Library: Smithsonian Libraries
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d that noe Jettie nor pendill y4 shallbe erected but shall be full 8 foot in height from the ground. . . .3 It is not to be assumed from this protest that jetties were then first cominginto use—a sufficient reason for it would be the closer upbuilding of the town.Among the houses we have been studying, the Narbonne house, like the west- 1 See note, p. 29. 2 Waters, Homes of the Puritans, Historical Collections of the Essex Institute, vol. 33 (1897), p. 53. 3 Boston Town Records, 1660-1701 (1881), p. 17. 19 AMERICAN DOMESTIC ARCHITECTURE ern end of the Whipple house, has no overhang. The Scotch House, the Cor-win, Hooper, and Capen houses, covering the years from 1651 to 1683, had eachsuch a framed overhang along the front only. The Ward house and the Hunthouse have one on one end also. The Bridgham house seems to have had one,and the Epes house, the Old Feather Store, and the Philip English house likewisehad an overhang on one end if not on both, so that the end overhang was used at
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Copyright, IQ16, oy Paul IFenztl and Maurice Krakow Figure 8. Capen house, Topsneld, Massachusetts. Plan and elevationsFrom Donald Millar: Measured Drawings of Some Colonial and Georgian Houses least from 1670 to 1698. The single dated instance of a hewn overhang, on theeast end of the Whipple house, Ipswich (figure 4), between 1669 and 1682, is alsocontemporary with these. None of the original drops or pendills preserved occursin the accurately dated examples. Messrs. Isham and Brown, believing in a progressive abandonment of importedfeatures, supposed with very inadequate documentary evidence that houses withend overhangs in the Connecticut Colony were older than those with overhangson the front only, and that the framed overhang as a whole disappeared after THE SEVENTEENTH CENTURY 1675.1 Joseph Everett Chandler, on the other hand, considers that the overhangswere not usually of the earliest date, but came along after the buildings witha straight front had been constructed for some

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