[Illustration: THE FAIRBANKS HOUSE, DEDHAM, MASSACHUSETTS Built _ca._ 1637. Courtesy of the Walpole Society] _Plate 13_ [Illustration: THE FRAME OF THE FAIRBANKS HOUSE DEDHAM, MASS. BUILT _CA._ 1637 From Isham, _Early American Houses_, 1928. Courtesy of the Walpole Society] _Plate 14_ [Illustration: THE FRAME OF AN ORIGINAL LEANTO HOUSE--THE WHIPPLE-MATTHEWS HOUSE, HAMILTON, MASS. BUILT _CA._ 1690 From Isham, _Early American Houses_, 1928. Courtesy of the Walpole Society] _Plate 15_ [Illustration: WATTLE AND DAUB IN ENGLAND From Oliver, _Old Houses and Villages in East Anglia_. Courtesy of the Walpole Society] [Illustration: THE CORWIN-"WITCH HOUSE," SALEM. BUILT BEFORE 1678 From an old watercolor at the Essex Institute] _Plate 16_ [Illustration: THE SPENCER-PIERCE HOUSE, NEWBURY, MASS. Built about 1651. This house of the smaller English manor house type, has the only original two-story porch and porch chamber now existing in New England. Courtesy of the Essex Institute] _Plate 17_ [Illustration: PARSON CAPEN HOUSE, TOPSFIELD, MASS. Built in 1683] _Plate 18_ [Illustration: PARSON CAPEN HOUSE, TOPSFIELD, MASS. Front Door] _Plate 19_ [Illustration: PARSON CAPEN HOUSE, TOPSFIELD, MASS. Front entry and stairs] _Plate 20_ [Illustration: PARSON CAPEN HOUSE, TOPSFIELD, MASS. Overhang and one of the "drops"] _Plate 21_ [Illustration: THE JOHN WARD HOUSE, SALEM. BUILT IN 1684 Showing overhanging second story, gable windows and casement sash] [Illustration: JOHN WARD HOUSE, SALEM, MASS. The kitchen showing roasting jack, settle, birch broom, hands of seed corn, etc.] _Plate 22_ [Illustration: THE JETHRO COFFIN HOUSE, NANTUCKET, MASSACHUSETTS Built in 1686. From a photograph made about 1880] _Plate 23_ [Illustration: REAR OF THE SAXTON HOUSE, DEERFIELD, MASS. Showing unpainted weatherboarding] _Plate 24_ [Illustration: PROSPECT OF THE COLLEGES IN CAMBRIDGE IN 1726 From an engraving, after a drawing by William Burgis] _Plate 25_ [Illustration: DIAMOND-PANE, LEADED GLASS, DOUBLE SASH Period of 1675-1700; in museum of the Society for the Preservation of New England Antiquities, Boston] [Illustration: CROWN GLASS WINDOW SASH Period of 1725-1750; in museum of the Society for the Preservation of New England Antiquities, Boston] _Plate 26_ [Illustration: FRAMING DETAILS OF THE MOULTHROP HOUSE, EAST HAVEN, CONN. Built before 1700. Showing methods of construction to be found everywhere in New England Drawing by J. Frederick Kelley] _Plate 27_ [Illustration: WOODEN LATCH OF ABOUT 1710 Found in the French-Andrews House, Topsfield] [Illustration: KNOCKER, LATCH AND BOLT ON THE DOOR OF THE "OLD INDIAN HOUSE" Built in 1698 at Deerfield, Mass.] _Plate 28_ [Illustration: TYPES OF WROUGHT-IRON DOOR LATCHES FIG. A FIG. B FIG. C