The Granite monthly, a New Hampshire magazine, devoted to literature, history, and state progress . ^ may be made not onlycomfortable and homelike, but attract-ive as well. The old colonial housesof Bridgewater with their numerousfireplaces, small-paned, wooden-shut-tered w^ndow^s, panelled rooms andinteresting legends are full of inter-est to the city dweller who is planningsome time a real country home. Bridgewater has been especiallyfortunate in the people who havechosen to make their summer homeshere. They can scarcely be calledsummer residents since their interest. Dr. Carvers Home Before
The Granite monthly, a New Hampshire magazine, devoted to literature, history, and state progress . ^ may be made not onlycomfortable and homelike, but attract-ive as well. The old colonial housesof Bridgewater with their numerousfireplaces, small-paned, wooden-shut-tered w^ndow^s, panelled rooms andinteresting legends are full of inter-est to the city dweller who is planningsome time a real country home. Bridgewater has been especiallyfortunate in the people who havechosen to make their summer homeshere. They can scarcely be calledsummer residents since their interest. Dr. Carvers Home Before Being Repaired in the town and townspeople extendsthroughout the year. To the perma-nent residents the newcomers aretheir neighbors and this old-fashionedterm is particularly applicable to theKev. Dr. Austin S. Garver. a well-know^n Unitarian minister of Worces-ter, Mass. ]Mr. Garvers home, sometimesknown as the old Martin place, is aof the colonial houseIt would hardly seemthe two pictures hereshown could be of the same place, yetone is the house as Mr. Garver dis-covered it. the- other as it looksnow that his enthusiastic plans arerealized. The contrast afforded bythe two pictures is an object lessonwell worth studving. The wonderful fine examplebuilt in that 204 Old Homesteads of Bridgeicater
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