. An architectural monographs on port towns of Penobscot Bay. ^ORT rOWNS OF PENOBSCOT BAY most gaunt faces. But, nevertheless, there is areal charm and an admirable character to suchgauntness, especialls when it is a characteristicde\eloped on a face where inheritance andbreeding are fine. That these builders were menof .Massachusetts, with the background of Salem,Newbur\port, Boston, Pi\mouth, and the settledstateliness of the Old Colons, there can be nodoubt. It is interesting to see what the\- retained was the best known of the three during the daysof the .Xmerican sailing ships, and was th
. An architectural monographs on port towns of Penobscot Bay. ^ORT rOWNS OF PENOBSCOT BAY most gaunt faces. But, nevertheless, there is areal charm and an admirable character to suchgauntness, especialls when it is a characteristicde\eloped on a face where inheritance andbreeding are fine. That these builders were menof .Massachusetts, with the background of Salem,Newbur\port, Boston, Pi\mouth, and the settledstateliness of the Old Colons, there can be nodoubt. It is interesting to see what the\- retained was the best known of the three during the daysof the .Xmerican sailing ships, and was the homeof a fleet of merchant sailors who made everyport from Liverpool to Bankok. Castine waspainted under the stern of man\ a wind jammerknown in the Indies and the China Seas. Though our houses must have been nearlycoeval, they divide into three general t\pes: theone-story cottage, the two-story gabled farm-. IIOl SI: ON CIllSTNl r STKl:!:! , , MAINE. of their birthright, and what iheir modest meansobliged them to forego. In Camden the simpler t\pes pre\ail and thereis little rich detail. In Belfast a large number ofNeo-Grec or Classic Re\i\al houses complicatethe situation. The> give the town an air almostof opulence, and date its heyday thirty vearslater than Camden, in the time when whalingand lumber were beginning to make mens for-tunes. All this work we have purposely omittedand stuck to the houses of earlier date. InCastine, both the fullness of detail and its \er\colonial character point both to an earlier dateand a less limiteil financial contlition. This town house, and the square, hipped-roof mansion, withinterior chimneys. In Camden we ha\e the three types all wellrepresented. Of the cottage t\pes only the door-wa\s ha\e been chosen for reproduction, but thepictures on page six give one a fair idea of theheight of the fagade, the ample wall, and widelyspaced windows. T
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