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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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he height of seventeenfeet. Where there was a third story, this, as in England, was generally shorterthan those below. Only in the case of the Clark (Frankland) house, if we maytrust old views, was this as high as the rest, or higher. The roof forms underwent significant transformations, a general tendency toflatter slopes, less total height, and level cornice lines dominating the developmentof particular types. Of the gable roofs, which had previously been characteristic, the curb or gam- AMERICAN DOMESTIC ARCHITECTURE brel form, flattened only at the summit, represented the survival of the old steepslope. Francis Price wrote of a figure in his British Carpenter, 1733: 8B iscalled a kerb roof, and is much in use, on account of its giving so much roomwithin side. English books of the middle of the century abound in diagrams forthe trusses of such mansard roofs (figure 55),1 with nothing to reveal that theywere not intended to be carried out to a gable. In the McPhedris house at Ports-
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From a photograph by Frank Cousins Figure 57. Graeme Park, Horsham, Pennsylvania. John Kirk, 1721 to 1722 mouth, certainly before 1728, and probably finished by 1722, the brick wall of thegable rises above the roof according to earlier fashion, both along the slope andbetween the tall pairs of chimneys (figure 56). Elsewhere and later, a raking mould-ing extends along the gable. Usually this goes by the chimneys, also, although inthe north gable of the Van Cortlandt house, Lower Yonkers, it is interrupted bythe chimney, as late as 1748. Here, as in the McPhedris house, the eaves cornice 1 E. £., W. Salmons Palladio Londinensis, 1738 (first edition, 1734), pi. 34; Batty Langleys City andCountry Builders . . . Treasury, 1745 (first edition, 1740), and Builders Jewel, 1752, pis. 89, 92; W. PainsPractical Builder, fourth edition, Boston, 1792, pis. 4, 5; etc. 84 THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY is mitred against the facade without turning the corner. It was in Graeme Park(figure 57) and in the Han

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