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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
Digitizing Sponsor: Smithsonian Libraries

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Figure 21. Bacons CastleFrom an old woodcut in Frank Leslies Illustrated Weekly Between 1677 and 1680 Peter Tufts (Cradock) house, Medford, Massa-chusetts (figure 25)1682 to 1683 William Penn (Letitia) house, Philadelphia (figure 27)Before 1697 Usher house (nucleus of Royall house), Medford, Massachusetts(figure 19) To these may be added several now destroyed, yet known through old views, pho-tographs, or excavation: Between 1662 and 1666 Country House and Philip Ludwell houses, James-town (figure 17) 4i AMERICAN DOMESTIC ARCHITECTURE 1676 to 1679 Peter Sergeant house (Province House), Boston (figure 24)Between 1681 and 1691 John Foster (Hutchinson) house, Boston, in its originalform 1692 Fairfield (Carters Creek), Gloucester County, Virginia (figure 22)Before 1700 The Slate House, Philadelphia (figure 23) The choice of bond for the brickwork has been thought to be a matter ofchronological evolution, and the idea has been advanced that English bond—■
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Figure 22. Fairfield (Carters Creek), Gloucester County, Virginia Courtesy of R. A. Lancaster courses of headers alternating with courses of stretchers—was the one employedin Virginia before 1710; and that Flemish bond—a header and a stretcher alternat-ing in each course—became popular after that date.1 In England at the time,however, these two bonds were both used by Inigo Jones, and their use in theseventeenth century seems to have depended on the use of special bricks for fac-ing2—the Flemish bond being preferred in this case because of its greater propor-tion of stretchers. In Jamestown English bond is found in the tower of the church, 1 William and Mary College Quarterly, vol. 15 (1907), p. 212. 2 Innocent, English Building Construction, p. 151. 42 THE SEVENTEENTH CENTURY built 1639-1647, and in the walls of the houses excavated there, 1662-1666; but inthe Warren house at Smiths Fort, built in 1651 or 1652, Flemish bond is used, andit appears in the chimney at Fairfield,

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