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Billerica, Massachusetts Home Built in 1665, Fully Restored
Billerica, Massachusetts Home Built in 1665, Fully Restored In the video below you will see that, Doug Towle considers old homes his children. The lifelong bachelor has spent much of...
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Hospitality at the Quaker Tavern Inn
The Federal style Hall’s Tavern in Falmouth, ME, now known as the Quaker Tavern Inn, was built in the first decade of the nineteenth century by Nicolas Hall. All interior structural evidence implies this Federal antique home, of gracious proportions, served as the local tavern for nearly 90 years.
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Victoria Mansion109 Danforth Street Portland, Maine Victoria Mansion is now open for the season for its regular historic tours beginning May 1, 2024 Location: Victoria Mansion 109 Danforth Street, Portland, Maine...
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Curb Appeal: What Came Before and the Happy Diversion of Curb-Side Sleuthing an Old House’s History
Dan Cooper is a well-known author, and has published over a thousand articles on the subjects of antiques, architecture, preservation and historic interior design. His first book, New Classic American Houses, was published by The Vendome Press. Dan is also President and CEO of Cooper Lace, has designed and sold historic lace curtains for twenty four years, providing them to private homes, museums and film sets. Dan is also recognized as a leading authority on the subject of historic carpeting.
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Fenced In: Period Appropriate Fences
An overview of period-appropriate fences: their existence on any specific historic property either directly enhances or detracts from the historic impression of the structures. Fences have always been a device to differentiate between “mine” and “yours” and originally were of use containing livestock.
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My house was built in 1917; it’s a quaint little cottage with a few interesting details.
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The Cape Cod House, A New England Original
Aside from white-steepled churches and village greens, probably nothing characterizes New England as much as the Cape Cod house.
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Curb Appeal: Highland Avenue in Greenfield, Massachusetts
Curb Appeal is a series of not-so-scholarly musings on historic architecture as seen from the street during the author’s ramblings around the Northeast. If you have a favorite neighborhood, town center or enclave of historic homes that you’d like featured, please contact me via email at lacelord@gmail.com.
