An architectural monograph on old homes of Newburyport, Massachusetts, . ral of the more im- THE WHITE PINE MONOGRAPH SERIES portant gardens, especially those that are ter-raced, are of considerable interest and passing through the town is impressed bythe large number of great, square three-storiedhouses whose dignified aspect testifies to theprosperity and good taste of their builders ofa hundred years ago and more. The housesof this type were built, for the most part, be-tween the Revolution and the War of 1812,few of them antedating the Declaration Among the earli
An architectural monograph on old homes of Newburyport, Massachusetts, . ral of the more im- THE WHITE PINE MONOGRAPH SERIES portant gardens, especially those that are ter-raced, are of considerable interest and passing through the town is impressed bythe large number of great, square three-storiedhouses whose dignified aspect testifies to theprosperity and good taste of their builders ofa hundred years ago and more. The housesof this type were built, for the most part, be-tween the Revolution and the War of 1812,few of them antedating the Declaration Among the earliest and finest Washington, Benjamin Franklin, John Han-cock and other historical worthies, togetherwith several mythological characters and anumber of animals. While houses of the square, three-storiedtype are undoubtedly what give its predomi-nant character to the town, there are notableexamples of the two-storied gambrel-roof typeas well, of which the Bradbury-Spalding housein Green Street, built about 1790, is one of thebest. Much older is the house in State Street. IHE JAMES NOVLS HOUSE, NEWBURY, MASSACHUSE in 1646. The doorways are additions made about 1830. of the houses of this type are the Lowell-John-son house and the Jackson-Dexter house, bothin the High Street. The latter house was theresidence of that eccentric merchant who calledhimself Lord Timothy Dexter, around whosename various legends have accumulated, amongthem the story of a shipload of warming-panssent to the West Indies, where they were soldat great profit as ladles for use in sugar re-fineries. An old print shows how this houselooked in Timothy Dexters time, when it hada sort of forecourt between it and the street,around which were ranged on high pedestals anumber of wooden statues representing George now occupied by the Dalton Club, it is notknown just when this was built, but its builder,Michael Dalton, bought the land in 1746,which would place the date of its erection later,at all events, tha
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