An Architectural Monographs on the Wooden Architecture of the Lower Delaware Valley, Vol. 6 (Classic Reprint)
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Excerpt from An Architectural Monographs on the Wooden Architecture of the Lower Delaware Valley, Vol. 6 The older or eastern portion (to the right in the picture) is built of three-inch white pine planks, double grooved with sliding tongues and even joints dovetailed together at the corners. The structure is really a piece of cabinet work rather than a piece of carpentry, and is a monument to the skill of the joiner - the old term is peculiarly appropriate for the artisan in this instance - who framed it together. It is only since the loosening and dropping off of the corner boards that this feature of construction has become visible. "The Willows," as are also nearly all other old West Jersey wooden houses, is "brick-paned," or lined with a solid brick wall inside the plank or clapboard exterior and between the studs. So substantial is the structure and so thorough the workmanship, that, after nearly two centuries, only slight repairs and reasonable care are needed to make it as fit as it ever was. Of an entirely different type are the capacious, foursquare, clapboarded houses, of slightly later date, that are to be found a-plenty throughout West Jersey. Of this class the house at Bordentown may be regarded as representative, or the house at Salem. These houses boasted a symmetrical, rectangular plan with central hallway from front to back, - rooms on each side of it, an ell extension at the rear, and chimneys at each gabled end. There is rarely any attempt at embellishment, for most of these houses were built by plain Friends who had conscientious objections both to collars on their coats and ornament on their dwellings. The simplest kind of cornice is ordinarily the only concession to the impulse for decoration. 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.
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