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Billerica, Massachusetts Home Built in 1665, Fully Restored

By Old New England Houses

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...

Architecture

Hospitality at the Quaker Tavern Inn

By Linda Lesko

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.

Preservation

The Damon Tavern celebrates Rufus Porter Murals

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“Look down the road and you see people endlessly coming and going. Stand a moment and watch them. Where are they going? Why are they traveling? What do they carry?...

Preservation

A Name for a Scrollwork Artist…

By Linda Lefko

The March 2018 CPWP Plaster Bits posed a question for our readers, as to who the artist was who painted free hand decoration in the Ashford House in Ashford, CT. We thank Brian Ehrlich for his research and for sharing a possible artist’s name.The name of Noah Graves is proposed, since similar work also has been attributed to his hand. As is often the case, without a solid, signed example, scholars take clues from circumstances and visual images to arrive at an attribution.