See quotation, 1797.
1784. A large framed House, almost as good as new.—Advt., Maryland Journal, May 11.
1784. A two-story Framed House, with two rooms on a floor.—Id., May 14.
1796. “That certain one-story Frame Shop in front, and Two Story Frame Messuage, &c.”—Sheriff’s notice in The Aurora, Phila., April 15.
1796. To be sold, An Elegant Three Story Frame House.—Id., Nov. 28.
1797. A frame-house is one built of sawed wood: the timbers of the log-houses are only hewn.—Fra. Baily, F.R.S., ‘Journal of a Tour,’ p. 219, note (Lond., 1856).
1799. Frame tenement at Auction.—The Aurora, Aug. 13.
1817. As she has exchanged her hovel of unhewn logs for a framed building, and that again for a mansion of brick, some of her cabin habits have been unconsciously retained.—M. Birkbeck, ‘Journey in America,’ p. 122.
1817. A storekeeper builds a little framed store, and sends for a few cases of goods.—Id., p. 118.
1821. This man had a framed house, of two stories, with two rooms on a floor.—T. Dwight, ‘Travels,’ iii. 344.
1821. A beautiful framed Episcopal Church, in the Gothic style, painted white, [at Buffalo].—Zerah Hawley, ‘Tour’ [of Ohio, &c.], p. 96 (New Haven).
1851. [The steamboat looked] like an infernal big frame house with the kitchen wall knocked out.—‘Polly Peablossom’s Wedding,’ &c., p. 119.
1857. It is a frame house, and like its mistress, of forlorn and pinched-up aspect, both having seen better days.—T. B. Gunn, ‘New York Boarding-houses,’ p. 58.
1860. I have an objection to frame houses in this country, and always have had, on account of our very dry weather’s rendering wood so very inflammable (I consider them dangerous), whereas an adobie, stone, or brick house may have a room or part of a room burnt, with far less danger of setting the whole house on fire.—Brigham Young at Logan, Utah, June 10: ‘Journal of Discourses,’ viii. 79.
