The show more than successfully makes the case for Le Brun's art historical rehabilitation, though if it has a fault, it's that the artistic conventions that Le Brun butted against aren't underscored clearly enough.
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Its main facade is symmetrical, with a center entrance flanked by pilasters and topped by a transom window. The windows in the side bays are butted against the cornice in the Federal style. Probably built in the 1820s, it is a well- preserved example of vernacular Federal period architecture. On October 7, 1983, it was added to the National Register of Historic Places.
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The only floor that receives natural light is the top floor because the synagogue was built in a neighborhood where the houses butted against each other. Three of the upper walls have windows for illumination, five windows for each of three windowed walls. The windows were wide and high. The lintels of the windows are classic arch shapes and may have been decorated with latticework at one time.
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The rods are then butted against each with the adhesive joining them. As it cures and sets, the fulfillment of green strength can be tested by a pull test, putting the bond in full tension load. Example of Lap Shear Joint in Load Shear loading can also be tested in respect to green strength. Most adhesive bonds used in design require the bond to typically be in a state of shear, not tensile.
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The second- floor windows are butted against the roof eave, a common Georgian feature. The main entrance is sheltered by a projecting gable-roofed vestibule. The building's interior follows a typical central-chimney plan, with the entry vestibule that has a narrow winding stair in front of the chimney. Most of the building's styling is Federal, but construction features such as gunstock posts indicate an earlier (17th or early 18th century) construction date.
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The main block is three bays deep, with the main entrance in the rightmost bay on the north side, slightly askew from a symmetrical placement. It is topped by a half-round transom window with a granite keystone at the top. Ground-floor windows are set in rectangular openings with stone lintels, while the upper-floor windows are butted against the roof eave at the top. The structure was built in 1816 by Ira Goodall.
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The interior follows a typical Georgian center chimney plan, with parlors on either side of a narrow vestibule with winding staircase. The interior retains significant original finish, including horsehair plaster, carved wooden wainscoting, and paneled fireplace surrounds. Second-floor windows are butted against the eave in Georgian fashion, and there are simple corner boards. The house was built in 1756 by Nathan Wood, a native of Concord, who arrived here not long after the Worcester Road was laid out.
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Upper floor windows are butted against the eave, with a narrow band of dentil moulding, while ground floor windows and the entrance are topped by slightly projecting and splayed lintels. The entrance flanked by narrow moulding and has a transom window with five panes in the shape of a tombstone. Above the entrance is a three-part window with narrow side windows. The interior is architecturally distinguished, and there is a later ell extending to the rear.
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Its main facade is five bays wide, with a center entrance framed by Federal period pilasters and corniced entablature. Second story windows are set butted against the eave, a typical early-to-mid 18th century placement. The interior retains many 18th-century features, including wide floor boards of oak, pine, and chestnut, a large fireplace hearth in the kitchen, and several doors with original handwrought strap hinges. The house is accompanied by a modern garage and shed.
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It has an early closed stove made by the Scottish firm of Smith and Wellstood and a modern kitchen counter. A door opens from the kitchen into an office which is a separate gable roofed building butted against the kitchen and which has a lower floor. To the west of the kitchen is a passageway with stone paving which leads to the dining room. This is a large rectangular slab building with a gable roof clad in corrugated iron.
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The Lincoln House is located on the northwest side of Maine state Route 86, overlooking the Dennys River at the northern fringe of the town's dispersed village center. It is a 2-1/2 story wood frame structure, five bays wide, with a side gable roof, central chimney, clapboard siding, and fieldstone foundation. The central entrance is simply framed, with a triangular pediment above. First-floor windows are topped by small entablatured lintels, while the second-floor windows have plain lintels butted against the cornice.
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A pike square generally consisted of about 100 men in a 10×10 formation. While on the move, the pike would be carried vertically. However, the troops were drilled to be able to point their pikes in any direction while stationary, with the men in the front of the formation kneeling to allow the men in the center or back to point their pikes over their heads. While stationary, the staff of each pike could be butted against the ground, giving it resistance against attack.
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The Norton House is located in a residential area in southeastern Branford, on the northeast side of Pine Orchard Road south of Birch Road. It is a 2-1/2 story wood frame structure, with a side gable roof covered in wooden shingles, central chimney, and clapboarded exterior. The main facade is three bays wide, with sash windows placed symmetrically around the center entrance. The window and door openings, as well as the building corners, are simply trimmed, with the second story windows butted against the eave.
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The Henry Antes House stands in a rural setting, roughly midway between Pottstown and Perkiomenville on the south side of Colonial Road a short way east of its crossing of Swamp Creek. It is a two-story structure, built out of local rubblestone and covered by a gabled roof. It is two bays wide and one deep, with the entrance in the leftmost bay of the front facade. Ground-floor openings for doors and windows are topped by segmented-arch stone headers, while those on the second floor are butted against the eaves on the long sides and topped by arches on the short sides.
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