. The wood-carver of Salem; Samuel McIntire, his life and work . CQ P o. Plate LV.—Detail of Mantel at the Womans Bureau. Mantels and Chimney Pieces so Mclntire himself carved the central panel inwood. This house is of interest to the antiquary in that itwas long the home of Henry FitzGilbert Waters,author of John Harvard and His Ancestry, AnExamination into the English Ancestry of GeorgeWashington, and many papers devoted to thegenealogy of prominent Salem families. His in-vestigations in London, covering a period of severalyears, for the New England Historical and Genealogi-cal Society are w
. The wood-carver of Salem; Samuel McIntire, his life and work . CQ P o. Plate LV.—Detail of Mantel at the Womans Bureau. Mantels and Chimney Pieces so Mclntire himself carved the central panel inwood. This house is of interest to the antiquary in that itwas long the home of Henry FitzGilbert Waters,author of John Harvard and His Ancestry, AnExamination into the English Ancestry of GeorgeWashington, and many papers devoted to thegenealogy of prominent Salem families. His in-vestigations in London, covering a period of severalyears, for the New England Historical and Genealogi-cal Society are well known and resulted in his Gen-ealogical Gleanings in England. During occupancy this house contained the bestprivate collection of rare Colonial furniture in NewEngland. The mantel in the west chamber of the Peabody-Silsbee house with its attractive hob-grate of orna-mental iron will be seen to resemble that in theHosmer-Waters chamber, but it is richer and showsgreater refinement. A conventional cymatium re-places the rope molding with a torus and fill
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