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Title: Domestic architecture of the American colonies and of the early republic
Year: 1922 (1920s)
Authors: Kimball, Fiske, 1888-1955 Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.). Committee on Education
Subjects: Architecture, Domestic Architecture, Colonial Historic buildings
Publisher: New York : C. Scribner's Sons
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
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clay and lime, and to fill, lath and plaister with bricks and claythe porch and porch chamber and to plaister with lime and hair besides; and to siele andlath them overhead with lime; also to fill, lath and plaister the kitchen up to the wallplate on every side.^ In the German houses of Pennsylvania the use ot clay persisted much later still.^The staircases in those seventeenth-century houses where they are preserveduniformly had winders at either end, with at most a short straight run between.Along this in the more elaborate examples, between the newel posts at the turns,was a short range of balusters. Stair banisters in the house of Colonel Daniel History of New England (1825 ed.)- vol. i, p. 32. - Connecticut Houses, p. 257. Isham and Brown, Connecticut Houses, p. 198. ^ Force, Tracts, vol. 3, XIV, p. 18. Quoted by Palfrey, History of New England, vol. 2 (i860), p. 59, note. ^ Essex Antiquarian, vol. 7 (1903), p. 169. Watson, Annals of Philadelphia, 2d ed. (1844), vol. 2, p. 18. 30
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Copyrtght by the TopsjleldHistonc.tl .s.^u/y Figure 14. Stairs of the Capen house, Topstield AMERICAN DOMESTIC ARCHITECTURE Parke are mentioned in a \irginia deposition of 1665.^ Although in Rhode Islandthey were often sawn to a profile,- and sawn balusters appear as late as 1749 in theattic stairs of the Van Cortlandt house in New York City, they were usually turnedin a lathe. Messrs. Isham and Brown state that a judgment as to the age of thestair can be made by noting the turning ot these balusters. The stumpy forms,with short curves, are the older. This is true of the seventeenth-century formsas a whole, as against the eighteenth. Whether the nature of any evolutionwithin the seventeenth century can be established is very questionable, however,owing to the small number of really dated examples of original stairs. Of thesethe Corwin house, before 1775, has banisters with the turneci part ten inches bytwo and one-half inches; the Capen house, 1683 (figure 14), thirteen and one-halfin

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