The White Pine Series Of Architectural Monographs Vol 2

Author : Wm Edgar Moran
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781330513798
Total Pages : 28 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (137 download)

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Download or read book The White Pine Series of Architectural Monographs, Vol. 5 written by Wm Edgar Moran and published by . This book was released on 2015-06-30 with total page 28 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The White Pine Series of Architectural Monographs, Vol. 5: A Bi-Monthly Publication Suggesting the Architectural Uses of White Pine and Its Availability Today as a Structural Wood The chimney-caps are, either by nature or by art, all provided with black tops. The materials, as a rule, were oak for framing and White Pine for exterior finish. The construction methods are similar to those in vogue in Connecticut during the same period: oak corner posts and intermediates, sheathed or stripped and covered with hand split shingles, put on with home forged nails. In some cases the fronts were shingles and the gables siding. The unstudied relation of openings to wall-surface and story heights of most of these simple houses seems to make them perfect examples of wooden design. The great simplicity which is their main feature, combined with a naivete in design, adds to their charm. In no case do we find very grand houses, even the neo-classic examples being human in scale, and it is their utilization as "partis" which is the chief architectural characteristic, giving value to these houses in a work of this kind. The three little houses on Main Street in Patchogue, the Roe, the Burt and the Robinson houses, are all very much alike in design, the example here shown, the Roe house, having the most interesting doorway, and each having a pleasing side porch covering the extension. The Livingstone Farm, at Bellport, now the Osborne house, was built about 1802. It possesses unusual detail in cornice, entrance and second story window trim. It is one of the side-entrance plan houses. The Mott house, formerly the Osborne, also at Bellport, retains the original central feature, and, although additions have been made from time to time which have injured the design as a whole, it retains exceptionally interesting detail in porch and railing. Southampton, one of the earliest settlements, has retained unchanged but few of its old houses; the Mackay house, 1700, being about the oldest. Between Southampton and Watermill is the White house, built in 1849, which shows a development in design and detail of a most interesting character. Watermill, settled in 1642, has two very good examples, one painted and the other unpainted, both built about 1800. The Thomas Halsey house would be a well-nigh perfect example of the farm-house, were it not for the bay; and the Anna Halsey house, which until quite recently was so surrounded by man-high box as to be almost hidden, has an interesting and very unusual door treatment. 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.