An Architectural Monograph On Farm Houses Of New Netherlands

Author : Aymar Embury
Publisher : Forgotten Books
ISBN 13 : 9781330222027
Total Pages : 24 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (22 download)

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Download or read book An Architectural Monographs on Farm Houses of New Netherlands written by Aymar Embury and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2015-06-26 with total page 24 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from An Architectural Monographs on Farm Houses of New Netherlands In New Jersey, where the fields were covered with erratic glacial drift of red sandstone, and had to be cleared before cultivation, the bodies of the houses up to the second-story line were generally built of this stone, with the gablc-ends, roofs and wings of wood. This red sandstone split readily, was easy to work, and hardened upon exposure to the air, and was therefore chosen in many instances; but it is a curious side-light upon the knowledge of our ancestors to find that people who could work stone so beautifully as the Dutch had no mortar which was durable when exposed to the weather, and the stone walls were therefore protected by overhanging eaves of wood, while the wooden walls needed no such shelter. The roof shape adopted by the Dutch made dormers unpractical for light in the second story; and as metal for flashing, so essential around dormers, was scarce and difficult to obtain, dormers were usually, if not invariably, omitted, and evidently in those houses which now possess them they were added at a date far later than that of the construction of the main building. The second stories of these houses were therefore lighted at the two gable-ends only, and in several of the old buildings which remain in their original condition 1 have found that the second-story bedrooms were formed by partitions only, no ceilings having been constructed, so that there was a through ventilation of air from one end of the house to the other over the tops of the bedrooms. The framework was in general constructed in the same manner as in the other colonies: it was of the post and lintel type. 1 n the earliest times the bodies of the walls were built of thick planks set edge to edge vertically; the inner sides of these planks were adzed to give a mortar clinch, and the shingles or clapboards for the exterior were nailed to the outside. The custom of filling in between the posts with studs was probably begun as early as 1725, and the spaces between the studs were often filled with brick or small stone laid up in clay; sheathing was then applied much as it is today, and the outside shingled or clapboarded, although in some instances the buildings were stuccoed directly on the studs and masonry filling between them, without sheathing or lath. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.