Actually,The houses or shelters built by the first English settlers in America were small single room homes. Many of these homes were "wattle and daub" homes. They had wooden frames which were filled in with sticks. The holes were then filled in with a sticky "daub" made from clay, mud, and grass. Rumford understood that the only useful heat generated by a fireplace was radiant heat. The air that the fire heated was mixed with smoke and went up the chimney
