Monday, January 5, 2015

The Brown Tavern

Photo- http://mhc-macris.net/Details.aspx?MhcId=TEW.5
The Brown Tavern

Built in 1740, the Brown Tavern is located at 995 Main St. Tewksbury Massachusetts. Currently housing TD banks Tewksbury branch(http://www.tdbank.com/net/absearch/LocationDetails.aspx?branchID=30136) the Brown Tavern is a beautiful colonial that sits facing the town common.


 

 



Saturday, December 20, 2014

Marshall Homestead

Photo- http://mhc-macris.net/Details.aspx?MhcId=TEW.38

The Marshall Homestead

Located at 379 Pleasant St. Tewkbury, Massachusetts, the Marshall Home is the oldest house still standing. Built in 1728, the Marshall home now stands, beautifully restored on the Marshall Brook Farm development.  
"...the historic Thomas Marshall Homestead, which was built in 1728, making it the oldest standing home in Tewksbury. Until recently, it had been occupied by generations of Marshall family members, since they first settled the property in the early 1700’s. Believed to be one of the first settlers of Tewksbury, which at the time was part of Billerica. The primary use of the land was farming. At one time the family had several hundred acres with crops and live stock. Currently the home is planned to be renovated and then sold."- Marc P. Ginsburg & Sons, Inc.






Friday, November 7, 2014

 The Old Manse

Built in 1770 for patriot minister William Emerson, The Old Manse, a National Historic Landmark, became the center of Concord’s political, literary, and social revolutions over the course of the next century. In the mid-19th-century, leading Transcendentalists such as Bronson Alcott, Henry David Thoreau, and Margaret Fuller discussed the issues of the day here, with the Hawthorne and Ripley families.
A handsome Georgian clapboard building, The Old Manse sits near the banks of the Concord River among rolling fields edged by centuries-old stone walls and graced by an orchard. From upstairs, you can look out over the North Bridge, where the famous battle of April 19, 1775, took place.




Sunday, November 2, 2014


The Caesar Robbins House

The Robbins House is a home built by the son of slavery survivor and Revolutionary War veteran Caesar Robbins in the early 1800s. This house was originally located on a small farm at the edge of Concord’s Great Meadows, in an area where a handful of self-emancipated Africans and their families established their homes. The last African American occupants left the house in the 1860s, and in the winter of 1870-71 the building was moved to Bedford St. In 2011 the Drinking Gourd Project moved the house to land adjacent to the North Bridge parking lot, where it is prominently displayed for Concord visitors. It will serve as an interpretive center for Concord’s early African history.

-http://drinkinggourdproject.org/projects/robbins-house/




Sunday, October 12, 2014


The Sayward Wheeler House

-Built C.1718

"The Sayward-Wheeler House is a historic house museum at 9 Barrett Lane Extension in York Harbor, Maine, USA. Built c. 1718, it was the home of Jonathan Sayward, a local merchant and civic leader, who remodeled and furnished the house in the 1760s according to his own conservative taste.

Sayward participated in the attack on the French fortress at Louisbourg, Nova Scotia, in 1745, served in the Massachusetts legislature, and, despite outspoken Tory views, retained the respect of his neighbors during the Revolution."

 

 

-http://www.historicnewengland.org/historic-properties/homes/sayward-wheeler-house

- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sayward-Wheeler_House 



Saturday, October 11, 2014






The Old Custom House and Pacific Club

"The historic brick building at the foot of Main Street that began life in 1772 as the counting house of prosperous whaling merchant William Rotch fought the Great Fire of 1846 to a draw. Its interior was gutted and charred, but its brick shell unbowed.

"It’s survived countless brutal winters whose freezing and thawing cracked its masonry, smaller fires on all three of its floors, and numerous tenants from the Chamber of Commerce and the county court to a pair of television stations and a photographer’s studio."

 http://www.nantuckettodayonline.com/archives/whatever-happened-to-the-pacific-club/



Tuesday, October 7, 2014


Jared Coffin House
  • 29 Broad Street Nantucket, Massachusetts 
  • Built Circa 1845

Downtown Nantucket

There are many examples of Classic New England architecture all through out Nantucket starting in the late 17th Century all the way to the Victorian era. 






Monday, September 29, 2014

Captain James Winn House

Historic Capt. Winn House, Oguquit Maine.

Ogunquit Heritage Museum
86 Obeds Lane
Ogunquit, Maine 03907
207–646–0296
Free and Open to the public
1 – 5 P.M., Tuesday – Saturday
June through September
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