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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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ferent elements, not merely enumerating thevariations of a given motive, but noting the duration of its use and seeing whetherthere were any transformations with the nature of a development. In the matter of accommodations, as should really be expected, differenceswere less a matter of chronological sequence than of means. Thus, the initial por-tions of the Pickering, Whipple, Narbonne, Hooper, and Ward houses, ranging in 16 THE SEVENTEENTH CENTURY date from about 1651 to after 1684, were of a single room in each of two full stories;the Scotch House, the Corwin and Capen houses, 1651 to 1683, were ot tworooms in a story. Many houses originally of one-room plan were subsequentlylengthened beyond the chimney: the Pickering house about 1671, the Whipplehouse before 1682, the Hooper house not until well into the eighteenth century.Whether the second room belonged to the original construction or not, functionalconsiderations took precedence over symmetry in determining the relative size of
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Figure 6. John Ward house, Salem. After 1684Courtesy of the Essex Institute the two. Symonds wrote in 1638, make one biger than the other. In theTurner, Whipple, Capen, Ward, and Hunt houses, at least, this is the case. Suchmediaeval tolerance of asymmetry persisted long after the abandonment of mediae-val details. Even with two rooms to a floor the houses were so small that it was naturalthey should be enlarged in the course of time. A characteristic form of additionwas the lean-to at the rear, roofed by an extension of the rear slope of the mainroof. Some of these additions were made very early. Thomas Lechford records 17 AMERICAN DOMESTIC ARCHITECTURE a document stating that one Brackenbury, in Boston, shall have . . . liberty tomake a lean to unto the end of the parlor.1 Before the close of the century houseswere built with a lean-to from the start. The agreement of the town of Deerfield,Massachusetts, in calling John Williams as its minister in 1686, states: That theywill build h

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