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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
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kering house, Salem 1 Waters, Homes of the Puritans, Historical Collections of the Essex Institute, vol. 33 (1897), pp. 50-51. 2 Quoted in full, ib., pp. 52-53. 3 Isham and Brown, Connecticut Houses, pp. 159-160.4 Waters, op. cit., pp. 49, 62. 6 The documentary evidence accepted by Isham and Brown as establishing the dates of those seventeenth-century Rhode Island and Connecticut houses on which their dating of others is based cannot be regarded asreally conclusive. Thus, in the fundamental case of the John Clark house in Farmington, the deed of1657 (p. 19), on the basis of which they regard it as having been the oldest house in the colony, does notestablish more than that there was a dwelling-house on the lot in that year, and the belief that the housewhich stood in 1880 was identical with this and was not a successor, is based on details merely postulatedas early. It is to be noted that Julius Gay, who unearthed the documents, himself dates the house 1700!Farmington (1906), p. 7. 14
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AMERICAN DOMESTIC ARCHITECTURE Finished 1675 Jonathan Corwin (Witch) house, SalemBefore 1680 Main body of Turner house (House of the Seven Gables),Salem Before 1682 Eastern part of Whipple house, Ipswich1683 Capen house, Topsfield (figures 5, 8) Between 1682 and 1693 Benjamin Hooper house (Old Bakery), SalemAfter 1684 John Ward house, Salem (figure 6) Before 1692 South wing of Turner house (House of the Seven Gables),Salem After 1695 Benaiah Titcomb house, Newburyport These are supplemented, so far as the exterior aspect is concerned, by oldviews of two dated houses in Boston and four others in Salem now long destroyed. 1670 Henry Bridgham house ( Juliens), Boston (figure 7) Between 1673 and 1682 Deliverance Parkman house, Salem After 1679 Daniel Epes house, Salem 1680 Old Feather Store, Boston Between 1683 and 1692 Philip English house, Salem After 1698 Hunt house, Salem All these were originally simple rectangular houses of one or two rooms inplan: a hall, serving also as kitchen, a

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