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Contesting History in 1899 : The Old Goal in York, Maine

As illustrated by the Old Gaol at York, Maine, a preserved monument sometimes has a way of persuading the public to view history in a skewed, one-sided way. Restored using the money of the upper-class summer residents of York in the early-20th century, Kevin D. Murphy looks at the Old Gaol and raise...

Date: 1995

Collection: Old-Time New England

GUSN: 169692

Ref. Code: SC001.1995.073.260.001

"Bedsteads Should be Painted Green" : Shaker Paints and Varnishes

While the common belief is that Shakers used buttermilk, blueberries and other natural materials to create their paints, research shows that the Shakers made their paints using proven recipes from outside their world and raw materials from New York and New England.

Date: 1995

Collection: Old-Time New England

GUSN: 169693

Ref. Code: SC001.1995.073.260.002

Inside SPNEA : The Yankee Photograph Collection

In the fall of 1994, Yankee Publishing Inc., donated an important collection of more than 2000 negatives dating between the 1890s and 1930s. These are images of New England cities, towns, bridges, landscapes, disasters - a broad imagistic document of life in New England recorded by such photographer...

Date: 1995

Collection: Old-Time New England

GUSN: 169694

Ref. Code: SC001.1995.073.260.003

Drawn and Published : The Craft of Portraiture in Eighteenth-Century New England

Care and craft went into the painting of portraits in the 18th century. The most accomplished portraits contained hints of the sitter's character - the way he held his hands, gazed through the painting, what he held, or little symbols contained in the scene. Just like poetry, the painting could exal...

Date: 1995

Collection: Old-Time New England

GUSN: 169695

Ref. Code: SC001.1995.073.260.004

"To Promote My Countrys Good" : Joseph Whipple and the Oliver Evans Flour Mill in New Hampshire, 1788-1802

The story of Oliver Evans' automated flour mill design is twisty and thorny. While Evans is recognized as one of the most important inventors of his time, and his impact on agriculture in New England is immeasurable, he let the design for the flour mill slip through his hands, as a published version...

Date: 1996

Collection: Old-Time New England

GUSN: 169696

Ref. Code: SC001.1996.074.261.001

Inside SPNEA : Daguerreotypes of Plymouth

More than 800 daguerreotypes reside in SPNEA's Library and Archives. It is a huge and impressive collection. Of those, there are 14 extraordinary daguerreotypes of Plymouth, Mass. The origin of these images are nebulous at best, but they are fascinating, crystallized moments of a time past in a town...

Date: 1996

Collection: Old-Time New England

GUSN: 169697

Ref. Code: SC001.1996.074.261.002

"As Time Will Serve" : The Evolution of Plimouth Plantation's Recreated Architecture

While a reproduction is, by definition, never completely accurate, Plimouth Plantation continually changes its buildings and structures in order to represent history as faithfully as possible. It is a work in progress, a canvas that is constantly painted over in order to bring a little of the past i...

Date: 1996

Collection: Old-Time New England

GUSN: 169698

Ref. Code: SC001.1996.074.261.003

The Province House and the Preservation Movement

When it was demolished in 1922, the Province House in Boston had gone through so many changes, fallen into such disrepair and had been ignored for so long, there was no way to know what it originally looked like. There were a few sketches and drawings, but they were superficial at best. During demol...

Date: 1996

Collection: Old-Time New England

GUSN: 169699

Ref. Code: SC001.1996.074.262.001

New England Culture on the Ohio Frontier

Inventory records from settler's homes reveal what they thought was necessary in their long, hard journey to their new land. The records of Abner Pinney and Levi Buttles, who died soon after moving to the Ohio frontier, provide a unique look into what these settlers thought was essential to establis...

Date: 1996

Collection: Old-Time New England

GUSN: 169700

Ref. Code: SC001.1996.074.262.002

Inside SPNEA : Of Pointed Arches

SPNEA's collections reveal how Gothic style informed the architectural and decorative arts during the mid-19th century. While the supporters of the style felt it should be organic and not forced into design, the style often found its way into anything in need of a little pizzazz - architectural desi...

Date: 1996

Collection: Old-Time New England

GUSN: 169701

Ref. Code: SC001.1996.074.262.003

Guns and Roses : Ritualism, Time Capsules, and the Massachusetts Agricultural College

Though largely ignored in studies of the past, time capsules present us with a clearer voice from, and greater view of, the past than do randomly excavated objects. A capsule dug up on the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, campus in 1991 speaks volumes. In the search for the capsule, the authors...

Date: 1996

Collection: Old-Time New England

GUSN: 169702

Ref. Code: SC001.1996.074.262.004

Three Hearths : A Sociological Study of Seventeenth-Century Massachusetts Bay Probate Inventories

The appearance of a third hearth on the ground floor of homes signalled a change from a late-medievel world view to a mentality that stressed comfort and display of status. New analysis of 17th-century homes and inventory records suggests that the change in world view didn't start until later than p...

Date: 1997

Collection: Old-Time New England

GUSN: 169703

Ref. Code: SC001.1997.075.263.001

Inside SPNEA : Drawings from the Office of Ogden Codman, Jr.

The daunting task of cataloguing the contents of The Grange, architect and decorator Ogden Codman, Jr.'s, family home in Lincoln, Mass., proved to be bountiful. When the Grange was acquired by SPNEA as a bequest from Dorothy S.F.M. Codman, 1,700 architectural drawings dating from 1883 to 1919 were f...

Date: 1997

Collection: Old-Time New England

GUSN: 169704

Ref. Code: SC001.1997.075.263.002

The Howland Mill Village : A Missing Chapter in Model Workers' Housing

Had the Howland Mill Corporation survived, worker housing as we know it could have been radically different. Situated between the rigid early version of workers' housing and the more recent triple-decker model, The Howland Mill Village was a radical design. This article examines the Howland Mill Cor...

Date: 1997

Collection: Old-Time New England

GUSN: 169705

Ref. Code: SC001.1997.075.263.003

A Philadelphian Looks at New England

These are excerpts from "Journal of a Journey by Sea from Philadelphia to Boston" by William Wood Thackara, 1791-1839, on a family visit to Hampstead, N.H., with his bride of eight months. The voyage on the Boston-based schooner "Delaware" was recorded in a 150-page account, which provides modern-da...

Date: 1960

Collection: Old-Time New England

GUSN: 169706

Ref. Code: SC001.1960.050.179.001

Astronomical Observatories in New England

New England observatories built between 1836 and World War I have little in common, but each shows how the concept of an observatory changed from a simple building with a dome to a building or set of buildings divided up according to function. These observatories were predominately Classical in cons...

Date: 1960

Collection: Old-Time New England

GUSN: 169707

Ref. Code: SC001.1960.050.179.002

The Lyman Greenhouses

The Greenhouses at Lynam House in Waltham, Mass., built between 1800 and 1804, are important not only because they used a special system of heating, but also because few greenhouses dating from this period still exist today.

Date: 1960

Collection: Old-Time New England

GUSN: 169708

Ref. Code: SC001.1960.050.179.003

The Historical Society's Part in American Education

A paper delivered by William H. Pierson, Jr., a professor at Williams College's department of art, on the afternoon of May 21, 1960, at SPNEA's 50th Annual Meeting. Pierson stresses the importance of education and the responsibility of historical societies to help educate the masses.

Date: 1960

Collection: Old-Time New England

GUSN: 169709

Ref. Code: SC001.1960.051.181.001

Christ Church, Boston

Christ Church, located in Boston's North End, which was begun in 1723, had no skilled architect or complete technical plans. Because of this, the architecture, which was inspired by the work of Christopher Wren, was translated into something entirely new and entirely American - the first great Georg...

Date: 1961

Collection: Old-Time New England

GUSN: 169710

Ref. Code: SC001.1961.051.183.001

Town Commons of New England, 1640-1840

Town commons are one of the best known features of New England, yet their origins are often shrouded in mystery and myth. They were not, as many people believe, used as pasture, nor were they the ornamental centers of towns. Then why and when did they originate, and why are they still found at the c...

Date: 1961

Collection: Old-Time New England

GUSN: 169711

Ref. Code: SC001.1961.051.183.002

The Boston Exchange Coffee House

The Boston Exchange Coffee House burnt to the ground in 1818 and was never rebuilt. Reactions to the building, completed in 1809, was mixed. While its exteriors was roundly criticized, its public rooms were admired by almost everyone who saw them.

Date: 1961

Collection: Old-Time New England

GUSN: 169712

Ref. Code: SC001.1961.052.185.001

Charles Bulfinch and Boston's Vanishing West End

During 1960 and 1961, two large-scale land clearances leveled wholesale blocks of buildings, as well of some of the loveliest architecture to grace Boston. While many of these buildings may not have had historical signifigance, standing among them was a house designed in 1793 or 1794 by Boston's fam...

Date: 1961

Collection: Old-Time New England

GUSN: 169713

Ref. Code: SC001.1961.052.186.001

Lewis and Bartholomew's Mechanical Panorama of the Battle of Bunker Hill

Panoramas provided popular entertainment to the masses before movies, television or radio were even imagined. Large canvas paintings unfurled off of rollers and depicting a story or journey, they provided escape and education to those who witnessed the spectacles. Minard Lewis and Truman C. Bartholo...

Date: 1961

Collection: Old-Time New England

GUSN: 169714

Ref. Code: SC001.1961.052.186.002

A Genealogical Puzzle

A call to SPNEA members with Essex County ancestry to help with a puzzling piece of an iron fireback.

Date: 1960

Collection: Old-Time New England

GUSN: 169715

Ref. Code: SC001.1960.050.179.004

Contract for Building Portions of a Turnpike in 1806

A contract from SPNEA's manuscript collections.

Date: 1961

Collection: Old-Time New England

GUSN: 169716

Ref. Code: SC001.1961.052.186.003

The Forgotten Courtship of David and Marcy Spear, 1785-1787

A series of letters reveals two years in the courtship between David and Marcy Spear, as their relationship moves from formal and secret to flowery and open. These letters were arranged and edited by Robert Bartlett Haas, head of the department of arts and humanities at UCLA.

Date: 1962

Collection: Old-Time New England

GUSN: 169717

Ref. Code: SC001.1962.052.187.001

When They Burned Peat in Middleton

Peat is normally associated with Ireland, where it is still used for fuel. But as early as 1790 to as late as 1870, peat was used in New England as an inexpensive source for heating. Essex County, for instance, once had no fewer than 21,000 acres of peat bog.

Date: 1962

Collection: Old-Time New England

GUSN: 169718

Ref. Code: SC001.1962.052.187.002

Lewis and Bartholomew's Mechanical Panorama of the Battle of Bunker Hill (Part 2)

Part two of the article detailing the travels of an elaborate panorama depicting the Battle of Bunker Hill.

Date: 1962

Collection: Old-Time New England

GUSN: 169719

Ref. Code: SC001.1962.052.187.003

Note on "Plans of an American Country Town" 1769-1770

The settlements of America were originally based on a European design. But with all the land to be had in America, what were once neatly planned towns and villages grew outward on tangents; the European design didn't work here. Featured here are two plans, published in "The Gentleman's Magazine," fo...

Date: 1962

Collection: Old-Time New England

GUSN: 169720

Ref. Code: SC001.1962.053.189.001

Hartford in an Old Account Book

John Potwines was a silversmith and merchant who came to Hartford from Boston in 1737. His daybook provides interesting insight into everyday life in Hartford in 1752, from the price of a suit of clothes to the favorite beverage of Reverend Hezekiah Bissell.

Date: 1962

Collection: Old-Time New England

GUSN: 169721

Ref. Code: SC001.1962.053.189.002

St. Michael's Church, Marblehead, Massachusetts, 1714, Part II

This article records, on the basis of early documentary and internal evidence, the individual features of the original building, as well as the multiplicity of changes and additions which have marked St. Michael's Church through almost three centuries. It is in this way that historical fact is separ...

Date: 1962

Collection: Old-Time New England

GUSN: 169722

Ref. Code: SC001.1962.053.190.001

Friendship Cards

In the 1880s and 1890s, the friendship card was one of the most popular ways of showing affections. The brightly colored cards were treasured not only for the meaning they held, but for their collectability. These cards were stored in albums and cherised for years, sometimes lasting longer than the ...

Date: 1962

Collection: Old-Time New England

GUSN: 169723

Ref. Code: SC001.1962.053.190.002

The Pedler's Cart

A comment on the origin of tin pedlers and how the manufacture of tinware was started in Connecticut about the year 1740.

Date: 1962

Collection: Old-Time New England

GUSN: 169724

Ref. Code: SC001.1962.053.190.003

The Art of Richard Greenough

While his "Franklin" is considered to mark the pinnacle of Richard Greenough's career, the sculptor is an artist who certainly deserves to be remembered for his work. Growing up in the shadow of his older brother, sculptor Horatio Greenough, Richard carved out his own niche of well-crafted busts and...

Date: 1963

Collection: Old-Time New England

GUSN: 169725

Ref. Code: SC001.1963.053.191.001

An Early Well House, Sturbridge, Massachusetts

While early houses are well documented through historical records, diaries and even many still-standing examples, many accessory buildings are neglected. Privvies, smoke houses and well houses were rarely recognized in records, and because of their gradual disuse are now rare in their original form....

Date: 1963

Collection: Old-Time New England

GUSN: 169726

Ref. Code: SC001.1963.053.191.002

Yankee Pluck at Bird Island Light

William S. Moore is one of the people who have shaped American history, yet has fallen through the cracks. His letter, published here, reflects a smart man who presented forward-thinking ideas to the U.S. patent office.

Date: 1963

Collection: Old-Time New England

GUSN: 169727

Ref. Code: SC001.1963.053.191.003

Nathaniel Kene of Spruce Creek : A Portrait from the Court Records

Nathaniel Kene wasn't the most pleasant man in early-18th-century Maine, and court records back that up. While it is sometimes difficult to draw character studies of the everyday lives of the farmers, artisans and merchants of early America, some of the more "colorful" are revealed through court rec...

Date: 1963

Collection: Old-Time New England

GUSN: 169728

Ref. Code: SC001.1963.053.192.001

Peter Banner, His Building Speculations in New Haven (Part IV)

Peter Banner moved around New England during his career as an architect. In this installment of the series on Banner, his work in New Haven gets a close examination.

Date: 1963

Collection: Old-Time New England

GUSN: 169729

Ref. Code: SC001.1963.053.192.002

Old-Time New England Primer of Preservation : P is for Paper

It's not necessary to save everything, and it's certainly not necessary to throw everything away. Diaries, financial records, newspapers and letters from generations ago provide profound insight into the everyday lives of our forefathers (and mothers). It's all about saving with discretion.But once ...

Date: 1963

Collection: Old-Time New England

GUSN: 169730

Ref. Code: SC001.1963.053.192.003

Mt. Holyoke Female Seminary

In honor of the 125th anniversary of the founding of Mount Holyoke College in 1962, the Mount Holyoke Club of Western Maine reproduced a print of the original seminary building made by Nathaniel Currier in 1845. The print celebrates the lives of early New England students and reminds us of those who...

Date: 1963

Collection: Old-Time New England

GUSN: 169731

Ref. Code: SC001.1963.054.193.001

"Boston Chairs"

Boston chairs" were extremely popular in the middle states. But what exactly constituted a "Boston chair," and was it manufactured exclusively in the city? Shipping records and advertisements for Plunkett Fleeson's store in 1742 and 1744 shed some light on these handsomely formed and soundly constru...

Date: 1963

Collection: Old-Time New England

GUSN: 169732

Ref. Code: SC001.1963.054.193.002

The Lithographs of Fitz Hugh Lane

Before there was Winslow Homer, there was Fitz Hugh Lane. One of the most important and appealing maritime painters in American history, Lane's work with lithographs goes largely unnoticed. But artistically, Lane achieved just as much in his work with lithographs as he did with his oils.

Date: 1963

Collection: Old-Time New England

GUSN: 169733

Ref. Code: SC001.1963.054.194.001

Washington in Christ Church, Cambridge

Questions swirl around Christ Church in Cambridge, Mass., and its involvement in the Revolutionary War. Was it used for services? Was it used only for barracks? And most important, did George Washington worship there? How often? And where did he sit? These questions are difficult to unravel, as hist...

Date: 1963

Collection: Old-Time New England

GUSN: 169734

Ref. Code: SC001.1963.054.194.002

Isaac Damon and the Southwick Column Papers

The Southwick column papers came to light in the spring of 1950. Protected by only a piece of rough brown paper, they had lain undisturbed in one of the columns of the portico of the Congressional Church in Southwick, Mass., since the building was completed in 1824. The papers shed new light on Capt...

Date: 1963

Collection: Old-Time New England

GUSN: 169735

Ref. Code: SC001.1963.054.194.003

The Foster-Hutchinson House

Thomas Hutchinson, Tory governor of Massachusetts, watched as an angry mob almost tore down his beloved three-story house on Garden Court Street on Aug. 26, 1765. Hutchinson longed for it during his exile in England until his death in 1780. This article explores the Foster-Hutchinson House, one of t...

Date: 1964

Collection: Old-Time New England

GUSN: 169736

Ref. Code: SC001.1964.054.195.001

The District Schoolhouse of Middleton, Massachusetts

Fighting over education and funding is an American tradition. Years of voting, arguing and allocating funds for building the district schoolhouses in Middleton, Mass., was a decades-long project. A division was approved, finally, in 1807. Read about the troubles and travails of building the schoolho...

Date: 1964

Collection: Old-Time New England

GUSN: 169737

Ref. Code: SC001.1964.054.195.002

Newburyport and Its Business District

The year was 1964, and Newburyport's business district was faced with a very real enemy: urban renewal. These pictures, taken from he negatives of Newburyport photographer George E. Noyes, date from as far back as the 1860s and show the historically important and just plain interesting buildings tha...

Date: 1964

Collection: Old-Time New England

GUSN: 169738

Ref. Code: SC001.1964.054.196.001

English Engravings as Sources of New England Decoration

English mezzotints and engravings found their way into Colonial homes until the Revolutionary War, according to inventory records and newspapers of the time. These engravings were sources for or inspired the architectural decoration of New England homes.

Date: 1964

Collection: Old-Time New England

GUSN: 169739

Ref. Code: SC001.1964.054.196.002

The Thompson, Connecticut Bank

The bank that stood in Thompson, Conn., since 1835, was emphatically horizontal in design, perfectly conveying the sense of mass and solidarity that a bank should possess. The banking company moved to Putnam, Conn., in 1893. In 1963, Old Sturbridge Village acquired the building and moved it to Sturb...

Date: 1964

Collection: Old-Time New England

GUSN: 169740

Ref. Code: SC001.1964.054.196.003

Dr. Manning's Mill

The modern woolen mill constructed by Dr. Manning in Ipswich has long since burned to the ground, replaced by a shapeless Caldwell block. The school that honored him has been taken down, and the cabinet containing his momentos was thrown out. Even the Mannings themselves have left Ipswich. But Manni...

Date: 1964

Collection: Old-Time New England

GUSN: 169741

Ref. Code: SC001.1964.055.197.001