The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1897-02-27
SOME OLD YANKEE HOUSES
AB0DES or THE EARLY SETTLERS
IN THIs COUNTRY.


Types of English and Dutch Household
est House Built in 1888 mt Guilford, This
Stakeholder Historic Buildings Erected
During the EARLY Days of Our History.
The first colonIsts Of Virginia in 1907
the Pilgrims at Plymouth in 1920 and
the Puritans around Boston in 1850, nat
urally enough felled trees, dressed them
into logs, and built rude structures as
we'll as their fewtools and thenecessity
of speedy shelter would allow A little
| later well-dressed log houses succeeded
to the rougher type, and next came
houses with frames and clap-boarded
surfaces. One hundred and fifty years
later the new West repeated the pro-
cesses of the east and to this day the
western man speaks of his frame house,
! thus illustrating the architectural edu-
cation, which In many localities has
been very rapid one.
In the seventeenth century very few
edifices built of imported brick repre-
scented ON our shores the civilization OF
the eastern hemisphere. Until few
years back Albany had a few remain
| ing specimens of the brick crenellated
houses with gables fronting the street,
with which Amsterdam abounds at the
present day. Hampton, Va, still mas
| its Episcopal church constructed OF red
and black brick, brought across the At
lantic. A few old brick manor houses
of the same period linger on the banks
of the Rappahannock and the lower
James, but they are European eXotics,
not genuine representatives of early
American architecture.
/ Most of the colonists of the Atlantic
coast, whether English or Dutch, had
no more money to waste on archltec-
ture than had their descendants who
crossed the Alleghenies. With both
protection against the savage and
| treacherous foe was the chief consider
alton. Every settlement had one or
more garrison houses, two story struc-
lures, built of logs, with the second sto-
ny projecting over the first, in order the
better to drop hot water or combusti-
pies upon any enemy attempting ~
/ force an entrance.
A generation or Two ago qulte rum
Der Of these garrison houses were
standing in New England, sometimes
pretty nearly in their original condl-
ton. They have since mostly disap-
peafea, OF nave peeH ~ aieetsa % y
pass Tor nouern STRUCTURES ~ Iateieas
observers. Inc plock mousse eieceeu
by Governor shlfies ~ l.ol' - li's w
only remnant OF the fort t1aillas' pui.'
by MN az the Junction 81 .he seoasll-
COOK ana henneusc FlVeIs. y y ~ ue'
with a touf-slded TOOL ara lloush ny
among tne Hlost aiicieit = 10 elass' -
sulnclehtly oid " oeesiNe .pe :
preservation when !. mas 1eeqiveu :,
4 late' Aork' ~ the salie s'aee' nau
many garrison HOUSES ~ q iiiue, eei -,
date' ana heeueu tHsiiss ~ ae.s'e''is :
was pIteh attacheu ny tiie liiuiaiis, CIV
IN 1911 Inc MINISTER anu many =, VS.
people were kllied' lWo - Inc w SCI
l1sohs, the Jehklhs. WHEN - last .uin,
pllns ooWla' anu tae pe..ei ~ ~ nsst 81
Mclhtlre, are Wv s'aiuins, :
Inc open secoiiu seots Miitap" = eiAe
latter may pe seen tae U.s. lano 80,
erecleo " Allieitea, rtAeee' i'au sse : =
garflsons' 81 Wlllch l"o q IT sutia t.i1n :,
the DARING mouse near 'ae oiea.
bridge, ana the JahVrln mouse oh ene
plains. Inc last ha1lleu ~ WHal "as
caied nall garrison psiiis i'louA
against a sudden attach, tnousii iialuis
strong enough 70 eliuuie sieose'
both these houses nave peeh hlouerh-
lied enough 10 render them more COT
/ venlent Tor mouse Keeping .housh a.
the expense OF ANTIQUARIAN appea'ailce'
i Hardly twenty houses ~ an view
England datlng pack OF ltuo ale yel III
existence, unless IN materlally Trans
| formed condition. At pest the most OF
them We're very roush, poA SNAPPED,
| With door IN one sldes ana hlsll
pitched roof, to make the snow sllde OH
easily, and CHIMNEY OF pFoulglous
size. A few years ago the great cnlHl-
ney of the house at RoscaWen where
General John A. DIX was porn was TORN
down and found to contain one nun
dred and fifty thousand or brlck me
chimney OF the Daring mouse IN TINS
town, destroyed about the same Tune,
was about as large. Its removal proVl-
! ded the house with a good sized addl-