Salt Box House
An enlarged hall and parlor house of the late seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries associated primarily with New England. This structure, with lobby entrance fronting a central chimney, features a lean-to ex- tension across the rear. The gable roof covering the extension assumes a “salt box” or “cat slide” profile in side view. Kimball 1922, 33; Morrison 1952, 54; Williams and Williams 1957, 60; Glassie 1968a, 1%; Pillsbury and Kardos c. 1970, 25; Cummings 1979, 24, 32-33, 70, 80, 86, 123~24, 138, 149; Foley 1980, 22; Rifkind 1980, 7; Walker 1981, 68, 257; McAlester and McAlester 1984, 78; Noble 1984, 25. (Jakle, 1989)