Sunday, October 19, 2014
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
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.
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