flat-trowel

Updated: May 13, 2025

Like many houses of the time and place, the façade is of faced stone carefully pointed, while the other walls are of exceptionally pleasing ledge stone, the two kinds of masonry being quoined together at the corners. The pointing of the stonework is a very informal variation of the modern Germantown type, flat-trowel pointed with little regard to definiteness of line.

Frank Cousins - The Colonial Architecture of Philadelphia