The history of ancient Wethersfield, Connecticut : comprising the present towns of Wethersfield, Rocky Hill, and Newington, and of Glastonbury prior to its incorporation in 1693 : from date of earliest settlement until the present time . houses on the ground floor were sometimes divided bya broad hall, from front to rear, from tlip rear end of which rose thestairway to the floor above; and from which on either side opened thedoors of the best-room, or Parlor and the Dining Room. Ujjstairs,or second floor, was a similar, tliough not quite so wide, hall, froiywhich opened two large square bedroo
The history of ancient Wethersfield, Connecticut : comprising the present towns of Wethersfield, Rocky Hill, and Newington, and of Glastonbury prior to its incorporation in 1693 : from date of earliest settlement until the present time . houses on the ground floor were sometimes divided bya broad hall, from front to rear, from tlip rear end of which rose thestairway to the floor above; and from which on either side opened thedoors of the best-room, or Parlor and the Dining Room. Ujjstairs,or second floor, was a similar, tliough not quite so wide, hall, froiywhich opened two large square bedrooms. The Boardinan house, at end of Broad Street, Wcthersfield (171U-1S57) built for Cor, etJoseph, by his father Samuel, was a fair example of this kind of house;as was also the Standish house in Wethersfield. In some of thesehouses, however, the fiont door opened merely into a little squarehall, or vestibule, which disclosed the doors of two large rooms oneither side and a winding and somewhat steep staircase leading upto the second story. Of this, we have an instance in the cut of thejSilns Dcunc house. Houses of this style and period (about IT^O-ITSO)generally possessed the dignity of two chimneys, and the form of the THE OLT) BOARD^rA^? CHEST, i6St^ possessioi: of William /•. 7- lloarJiiunK i/jrtfarJ. L\-iiii OLD HOUSES AND TAVERNS. 727 roof was suiiutinies that known as f tlie Old Fisli IIoiisi—if it Ijenot desecratidn to e(iui)le tlie latter with the two former as ilhistrationsof this ]) of rouf. ^[iwiy houses of this pi^riod also had thepeculiarity of a lon^ heavy timber passing through the centre of manyof the rooms, overhead. This rind)er, usually 1-2 inches square, wasgenerally covered with nicely pinned boards, where it projected belowthe level of the lath and plaster of the ceiling; though in some instancesit was left imcovered, showing the marks of the adze with which ithad been squared.—77. E. S.\ Wethersfield has reason to fe
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