These Witch-houses are the pioneers of the procession. Nothing older than they has been able to withstand the vicissitudes of our erratic climate’s racket, though contemporary with them are the early houses of Connecticut, which have been admirably described in a book by Norman M. Isham, A.M., and Albert F. Brown. The Sumner house at Middletown, illustrated herewith ([Plate XXIV]), exhibits a method of construction which I believe is peculiar to the State of Connecticut alone. It consists of a 3-inch offset at the second story, and continuing around the four sides, the gables projecting 3 inches more. A great central
A MODERN DEVELOPMENT OF WITCH-HOUSE—PLAN
GERMANTOWN MOTIVE APPLIED TO A MODERN COTTAGE.
TYPE OF EARLY CONNECTICUT HOUSE, STRATFORD, CONN.
