The White Pine Monograph Series On Early American Architecture

Author : Frank Chouteau Brown
Publisher : Forgotten Books
ISBN 13 : 9781330156315
Total Pages : 25 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (563 download)

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Download or read book The White Pine, Vol. 1 written by Frank Chouteau Brown and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2015-06-25 with total page 25 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The White Pine, Vol. 1: Series of Architectural Monographs, "New England" Colonial Hovses In this house there existed a curious detail of construction in the window-caps, intended to protect the top of the window-case, which was projected beyond the frame of the building and applied to its face in the old-fashioned way. These molded caps were crowned by a sloping member, carefully hewn and shaped from one heavy log of wood so as to provide a sloping "wash" across the top and front and returned on the two ends; while the carpenter took pains to leave a standing flange at the back over which the siding was broken, thus providing a sort of flashing, but executed entirely in wood! Later in the 18th century, the American builders began to secure the "Carpenter's Handbooks," first published in England about 1756, and from these they developed new details far more easily, merely adapting them to the somewhat simplified conditions and requirements of the American village or town in which they lived and worked. Later, the demand for these practical builders' assistants became so great that at least one volume was reprinted in this country; being compiled and issued by a certain Asher Benjamin, an architect in Greenfield, Massachusetts, in 1797. For a number of years the plan developed few changes, except in so far as they were demanded by special or larger requirements imposed by the owner. 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.