The Old Dartmouth historical sketches . sif &?: WW v,.;: %j\ Mf/j(\ WM« r^UCj ISO. POPLAR GROVE, BUILT BY HUMPHREY HOWLAND, 1810, SC1PIO, N. Y these timbers were placed so close to-gether that when a furnace was putinto the house • in modern times, itproved impossible to get space for theregisters without chiseling these ob-structions on each side of the parlor was 14 feet high, 24 feeteach way, and circular at one end. Thehall went through the house and was40 feet long by 15 wide. Everythingwas on a grand scale, even to a tallclock, nine feet high, all to correspondwith the state
The Old Dartmouth historical sketches . sif &?: WW v,.;: %j\ Mf/j(\ WM« r^UCj ISO. POPLAR GROVE, BUILT BY HUMPHREY HOWLAND, 1810, SC1PIO, N. Y these timbers were placed so close to-gether that when a furnace was putinto the house • in modern times, itproved impossible to get space for theregisters without chiseling these ob-structions on each side of the parlor was 14 feet high, 24 feeteach way, and circular at one end. Thehall went through the house and was40 feet long by 15 wide. Everythingwas on a grand scale, even to a tallclock, nine feet high, all to correspondwith the stately poplars outside, whichset the keynote of the stiff and some-what pompous grandeur. The kitchenwas banished to the basement, a mostunnecessary inconvenience where landwas so superabundant, but it com- tween the Great Eakes and the At-lantic seaboard, from Buffalo to Al-bany, thence down the Hudson riverto New York. DeWitt Clinton was thegovernor of the state, and the headand front of the whole scheme, devot-ing his best energies to its success forten years. He was a preside
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