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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Figure 27. William Perm (Letitia) house, on its original site. 1682-1683From an old photograph in the possession of the Historical Society of Pennsylvania The windows of many of the brick houses have been enlarged, and there is notsuch good evidence for their size and proportion as that furnished by the mor-tises of a wooden house. In the Tufts house there were apparently banks of case- 48 THE SEVENTEENTH CENTURY ments beneath a segmental relieving arch. At Bacons Castle the chief openings,also segmental in the lower story, were larger, and Mr. Millar is doubtless correctin restoring them with a transom—a feature which appears in the old view of theBradstreet house in Salem. The large rectangular openings must also have madetransoms necessary with the original casement sash mentioned in the early descrip-tion of the Slate House. As this finest house in Philadelphia, recommended by
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Figure 28. Interior of Penn houseCourtesy of Ogden Codman Logan for the proprietors residence, would scarcely have fallen behind the moremodest residence built by Penn fifteen years earlier, we may reasonably assumethat this also originally had transomed casements beneath its broad flat arches.It is extremely doubtful if double-hung sash windows were used in any Colonialhouse during the seventeenth century. Most of the windows lack any enframement, but in Bacons Castle those of theupper story have one of brick, suggestive of an architrave with ears—the sole 49 AMERICAN DOMESTIC ARCHITECTURE feature of the house which suggests classic influence, and the only example of thiselement in houses of the seventeenth century. The interior treatment of the brick houses generally does not show character-istic differences of style from that of wooden houses. Plastered wall surfaces seemto have been the rule during the seventeenth century; the panelling found, forinstance, in the Warren house an

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