. Fitchburg, Massachusetts, past and present . RESIDENCE OF MRS. EUGENE T. MILES, BLOSSOM STREET. CHURCHES AND HOMES. 307 either stockaded or garrisoned, and the interiors furnishedwith only the plainest articles of necessary use. After thiscame the one and two story framed farm houses, withtheir enormous stone chimneys and fireplaces, suggestiveof corn bannocks, pumpkin pies and kitchen dances. Thetimbers in these houses, huge beams of the toughest oak,were well calculated to stand the ravages of time, and it istherefore not at all strange that some of the first of these oldlandmarks remain w
. Fitchburg, Massachusetts, past and present . RESIDENCE OF MRS. EUGENE T. MILES, BLOSSOM STREET. CHURCHES AND HOMES. 307 either stockaded or garrisoned, and the interiors furnishedwith only the plainest articles of necessary use. After thiscame the one and two story framed farm houses, withtheir enormous stone chimneys and fireplaces, suggestiveof corn bannocks, pumpkin pies and kitchen dances. Thetimbers in these houses, huge beams of the toughest oak,were well calculated to stand the ravages of time, and it istherefore not at all strange that some of the first of these oldlandmarks remain with us until the present day. One ofthem was built by Amos Kimball, on the Samuel Halefarm, and is now a portion ot the old house in the rear of the. j. Hollands residence, 1840. present residence. Later on we find an improvement in thestyle of building, with a greater variety in outward formand a sensible reduction in the size of chimneys, but with thesame unnecessarv strength of beams and rafters. A houseof this class is now standing on the corner of Charles andLinden streets. It was originally a parsonage, occupied bythe Rev. John Payson, and stood on the site of the presentresidence of Samuel Burnap on South street. Mr. Burnappurchased this house and a large tract of land of Mr. , in 1838, and removed the old house to where it isnow located, to make room for his present residence. Then 308 FITCIIBURG, PAST AND PRESENT. came the more modern houses built according to the taste orfancy of the owner, and with better interior finish and fur-nishing- ; among these were the square cottage, plain buthomelike, the octagon, and the story and a half cottage, withprojecting chamber, supported by turned posts, thus forminga front
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