Historic New England

Cornice

Section of cornice, one edge mitered; traces of very early red paint/stain under white paint.

Date: ca. 1725

Maker: unknown

Material: painting (coating), softwood, staining

GUSN: 29

Accession Number: 1959.93

Pin

Conical pin.

Date: ca. 1725

Maker: unknown

Material: oak (wood)

GUSN: 30

Accession Number: 1914.129

Column

Column fragment, perhaps a column base, with 2" wide carved flutes.

Date: 1880-1882

Maker: unknown

Material: carving (processes), fluting, sandstone

GUSN: 32

Accession Number: 1987.57

Wall fragment

Section of wall with oak lath which is up and down sawn, riven and accordianed and attached to very wide studs. There is a very fine coat of plaster covering most of the sample.

Date: 1780-1790

Maker: unknown

Material: hair, oak (wood), plaster, splitting, sawing

GUSN: 33

Accession Number: 1964.400C

Sheathing

Fragments of wall sheathing with shadow molding and black paint as well as whitewash.

Date: 1675

Maker: unknown

Material: molding (forming), painting (coating), softwood

GUSN: 34

Accession Number: 1964.252.2AB

Dado

Panelled dado with narrow rectangular panel over a wider rectangular panel. The panels are raised field with 1" feather edge. Grooves are quarter-round molded.

Date: ca. 1739

Maker: More, William (Cabinetmaker)

Material: molding (forming), paneling, softwood

GUSN: 35

Accession Number: 1927.847

Panelled dado with narrow rectangular panel over a wider rectangular panel. The panels have a raised field and 1" feather panel. The grooves have quarter-round molding. This panel has dado cap molding attached.

Date: ca. 1739

Maker: More, William (Cabinetmaker)

Material: molding (forming), paneling, softwood

GUSN: 36

Accession Number: 1927.848

Sliding Shutter

A shutter made from two boards held together by a batten; later covered with plaster and lath. Some hair plaster still attached.

Date: ca. 1750

Maker: unknown

Material: hair, plaster, softwood

GUSN: 37

Accession Number: 1980.258

Shingle

Shingles with ends cut to make hexagonal pattern when put together with others; grey paint and size may indicate an attempt to imitate slate.

Date: 1846

Maker: Davis, Alexander Jackson, Mr. (Architect)

Material: painting (coating), softwood

GUSN: 38

Accession Number: 1959.103A-E

Shingle

Wall shingle with 8" or so weathering face and rounded upper edge; handsplit.

Date: ca. 1718

Maker: unknown

Material: splitting, pine (wood)

GUSN: 39

Accession Number: 1918.1143

Clapboard

Section of sheathing board with two bevelled edges and 4 1/2" wide clapboards; clapboaards have feathered ends and wrought nails.

Date: 1735

Maker: unknown

Material: beveling, softwood

GUSN: 40

Accession Number: 1923.545.1

Shingle

No description

Date: ca. 1672

Maker: unknown

Material: softwood

GUSN: 41

Accession Number: 1928.172

Clapboard

Clapboard with nails holes on top and bottom; traces of whitewash over half of it.

Date: ca. 1810

Maker: unknown

Material: pine (wood), whitewashing (coating)

GUSN: 43

Accession Number: 1966.12

Window Sash

Sash with hinge pin sockets and detached iron pull/latch. Divided into three horizontal panels.

Date: 1600-1699

Maker: unknown

Material: iron (metal)

GUSN: 44

Accession Number: 1925.677

Leaded Window

Ten panes of square-shaped leaded window lights with cames loops for wood transom bar.

Date: 1678

Maker: unknown

Material: lead (metal), lead glass, glass (material)

GUSN: 45

Accession Number: 1951.M24A

Shingle

Slim and much weathered roof shingles with traces of original red paint.

Date: 1844

Maker: 252 Gray Street (Maker)

Material: pine (wood)

GUSN: 46

Accession Number: 1973.183

Shingle

Shingle, hand-split and quite weathered.

Date: 1715-1740

Maker: unknown

Material: splitting, Norway spruce (wood)

GUSN: 47

Accession Number: 1928.1142

Shingle

Roof shingle.

Date: ca. 1767

Maker: unknown

Material: chestnut (wood), oak (wood)

GUSN: 48

Accession Number: 1942.1113

Shingle

Roof shingle

Date: 1795-1796

Maker: unknown

Material: cedar (wood)

GUSN: 221145

Accession Number: 1930.1165

Balustrade

B: a short newel post with handrail attached which slopes up and fits into mortise in C. C: a newel post with outline and mortises in the paint showing where two handrails attached at right angles; black paint.

Date: 1830-1850

Maker: unknown

GUSN: 52

Accession Number: 1960.12BC

Handrail

Handrail segment; mahogany finish; grained?

Date: ca. 1870

Maker: unknown

Material: graining, softwood

GUSN: 53

Accession Number: 1959.247

Mantelshelf

No description

Date: 1794-1796

Maker: unknown

Material: molding (forming), painting (coating), softwood

GUSN: 54

Accession Number: 1926.866

Stud

Front door stud with mortise (12 1/2" from one end) and numerous hand-wrought nails in one side.

Date: ca. 1720

Maker: unknown

Material: oak (wood)

GUSN: 55

Accession Number: 1964.62

Joist

Floor joist, beaded along two edges and charred at one end; some evidence of dark stain.

Date: ca. 1710

Maker: unknown

Material: oak (wood), staining

GUSN: 56

Accession Number: 1969.255

Stud

A: Wall studs with nails and lathing marks on one face and sheathing and clapboarding on the other. There is a rabbet at each end and recesses on the diagonal. B: Tenons at both ends and bevelled recesses (rabbets).

Date: ca. 1700

Maker: unknown

Material: beveling, hardwood

GUSN: 57

Accession Number: 1966.454AB

Window Frame

Four pieces of wood joined by pegs; very slight decorative trim; the jambs of the interior are slightly canted; sash would have been fixed and leaded.

Date: 1724

Maker: unknown

Material: hardwood, molding (forming)

GUSN: 59

Accession Number: 1961.17

Mantelpiece

Packed in large crate, this white marble mantel consists of numerous pieces; heavily molded, segmentally arched fireplace surround, incised decoration on the spandrels, leafy capitals.

Date: ca. 1876

Maker: Bowker and Torrey (Maker)

Material: marble (rock), molding (forming), incising, carving (processes)

GUSN: 60

Accession Number: 1922.985

Newel

B: newel and handrail section, complete and unbroken; brown paint. E: newel and piece of handrail at right angles; mortise for another rail lower down; handrail is simple Federal design; newel has turnings below and is square above with simple turned circle on top; brown paint.

Date: ca. 1810

Maker: unknown

GUSN: 61

Accession Number: 1960.6BE

Feels like home / edited by Cheryl Moch ; with an introduction by Allan Gurganus.

xvi, 128 p. : ill. ; 21 cm.

Date: 1995.

Creators: Moch, Cheryl.

GUSN: 149414

Call Number: Stacks TR654.M56 1995

The ceramics of William H. Grueby : the spirit of the new idea in artistic handicraft / Susan J. Montgomery.

119 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 29 cm.

Date: 1993.

Creators: Montgomery, Susan J., 1947-

GUSN: 149415

Call Number: Stacks NK4210.G77 M66 1993 (and 1 more)

Architecture without kings : the rise of Puritan classicism under Cromwell / Timothy Mowl & Brian Earnshaw.

xiv, 240 : ill. ; 25 cm.

Date: 1995.

Creators: Mowl, Tim. Earnshaw, Brian.

GUSN: 149416

Call Number: Stacks NA966.M68 1995

Living on the Boott : historical archaeology at the Boott Mills Boardinghouses, Lowell, Massachusetts / Stephen A. Mrozowski, Grace H. Ziesing, and Mary C. Beaudry.

xv, 93 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.

Date: 1996.

Creators: Mrozowski, Stephen A. Ziesing, Grace H. Beaudry, Mary Carolyn, 1950-

GUSN: 149417

Call Number: Stacks F74.L9 M76 1996

Moshe Safdie : buildings and projects, 1967-1992 / edited by Irena éZantovskâa Murray.

332 p. : ill. ; 22 cm. + 1 computer laser optical disc (4 3/4 in.)

Date: c1996.

Creators: Safdie, Moshe, 1938- Murray, Irena, 1946- Blackader-Lauterman Library of Architecture and Art. Canadian Architecture Collection.

GUSN: 149418

Call Number: Stacks Z6611.A67 M68 1996

Living architecture : a biography of H.H. Richardson / James F. O'Gorman ; photographs by Cervin Robinson.

200 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 32 cm.

Date: c1997.

Creators: O'Gorman, James F. Richardson, H. H. (Henry Hobson), 1838-1886. Robinson, Cervin.

GUSN: 149419

Call Number: Stacks NA737.R5 O38 1997 c.1

At beck and call : the representation of domestic servants in nineteenth-century American painting / Elizabeth O'Leary.

x, 305 p., [8] p. of plates : ill. (some col.) ; 26 cm.

Date: c1996.

Creators: O'Leary, Elizabeth L.

GUSN: 149420

Call Number: Stacks ND1460.D65 O43 1996 (and 1 more)

The coming of industrial order : town and factory life in rural Massachusetts, 1810-1860 / Jonathan Prude.

xvii, 364 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.

Date: 1985, c1983.

Creators: Prude, Jonathan.

GUSN: 149421

Call Number: Stacks HC107.M4 P78 1985 (and 1 more)

Sex, diet, and debility in Jacksonian America : Sylvester Graham and health reform / Stephen Nissenbaum.

p. ; cm.

Date: 1988, c1980.

Creators: Nissenbaum, Stephen.

GUSN: 149422

Call Number: Stacks RA418.3.U6 N57 1988

Walter Gropius / Hartmut Probst, Christian Schèadlich ; [Herausgeber: Sekton Architekur der Hochschule fèur Archtetur und Bauwesen Wermar].

v. : ill. (some col.), plans. ports. ; 28cm.

Date: c1985-

Creators: Probst, Hartmut. Schèadlich, Christian. Hochschule fèur Architektur und Bauwesen Weimar (Germany). Sektion Architektur.

GUSN: 149423

Call Number: 85M Stacks NA1088.G85 A4 Bd.1 (and 1 more)

Basic data for a tentative and preliminary plan for New England, designed to stimulate criticism, suggestion and eventually action. New England Regional Planning Commission, National Resources Board, district no. 1.

2 p. ¾., iv, 37 numb. ¾., 1 ¾., 6 numb. ¾., 74 ¾. incl maps (1 fold.) form. fold. tab. 28 cm.

Date: [1935]

Creators: New England Regional Planning Commission.

GUSN: 149424

Call Number: Stacks HC107.A11 N345

The Shaker chair / Charles R. Muller, Timothy D. Rieman ; foreword, Jerry Grant ; illustrations, Stephen Metzger ; photography, Timothy D. Rieman.

1 v. (various pagings) : ill. (some col.) ; 30 cm.

Date: 1992.

Creators: Muller, Charles R. Rieman, Timothy D.

GUSN: 149425

Call Number: Stacks NK2713.M84 1992

Living in a dream : great residences of the world / foreword by John Julius Norwich.

180 p. : col. ill. ; 36 x 26 cm.

Date: c1993.

GUSN: 149426

Call Number: Stacks NA7710.L58 1993

Senators of the United States : a historical bibliography : a compilation of works by and about members of the United States Senate, 1789-1995 / compiled by Jo Anne McCormick Quatannens ; Diane B. Boyle, editorial assistant ; prepared under the direction of Kelly D. Johnston.

xi, 356 p. ; 28 cm.

Date: 1995.

Creators: Quatannens, Jo Anne McCormick, 1951- Boyle, Diane B.

GUSN: 149427

Call Number: Stacks Z1249.C67 Q38 1995

Some descendants of Samuel Parker of Dedham Massachusetts / Franklin P. Parker.

iv, 185 p. : ill., map ; 28 cm.

Date: c1984.

Creators: Parker, Franklin P.

GUSN: 149428

Call Number: Stacks CS71.P24 1984

Stereoviews illustrated / Russell Norton.

v. : ill. ; 16 x 24 cm.

Date: 1994-

Creators: Norton, Russell.

GUSN: 149429

Call Number: Stacks E168.N88 1994

Leaves from my book of life / by Guido R. Perera.

2 v. : ports. : 26 cm.

Date: [Stinehour], 1974.

Creators: Perera, Guido Rinaldo, 1902-

GUSN: 149430

Call Number: Stacks KA29.P45 A3 v.1 1974

The Public Garden, Boston / [contributors, Henry Lee ... [et al.].

80 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 22 x 27 cm.

Date: c1988.

Creators: Lee, Henry. Friends of the Public Garden and Common.

GUSN: 149431

Call Number: Stacks F73.65.P83 1988 (and 1 more)

Children of the Civil War / Candice F. Ransom.

48 p. : ill. ; 21 cm., Explores the lives of children during the Civil War, including those who joined armies, others who stayed home, and the large numbers made homeless because of the conflict.

Date: 1998.

Creators: Ransom, Candice F., 1952-

GUSN: 149432

Call Number: Stacks E468.9.R36 1998

Great American railroad stations / Janet Greenstein Potter ; [foreword by Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan].

xiii, 570 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.

Date: c1996.

Creators: Potter, Janet Greenstein.

GUSN: 149433

Call Number: 85M Stacks TF302.U54 P68 1996

Summering on the thoroughfare : the architecture of North Haven, 1885-1945 / by Roger G. Reed ; foreword by Henry N. Cobb ; architectural photography by Richard Cheek.

104 p. : ill., plans ; 23 x 28 cm.

Date: 1993.

Creators: Reed, Roger G., 1950-

GUSN: 149434

Call Number: Stacks NA7575.R42 1993

Administration / edited by Frederick L. Rath, jr. and Merrilyn Rogers O'Connell.

ix, 227 p. ; 24 cm.

Date: 1980.

Creators: Rath, Frederick L. O'Connell, Marilyn Rogers.

GUSN: 149435

Call Number: Stacks Z5052.R274

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