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The American Antiquarian Society (AAS), located in Worcester, Massachusetts, is both a learned society and a national research library of pre-twentieth-century American history and culture. Founded in 1812, it is the oldest historical society in the United States with a national focus.
This is a list of the National Register of Historic Places listings in Washington County, Vermont. This is intended to be a complete list of the properties and districts on the National Register of Historic Places in Washington County, Vermont, United States. Latitude and longitude coordinates are provided for many National Register properties ...
The area was developed beginning in the late 1830s by former Governor of Massachusetts Levi Lincoln Jr., a Worcester native who had inherited land in the area. The district was divided and developed by Lincoln until his death, and then by his heirs, and became a popular location for homes of Worcester's wealthy and elite, many of which were ...
You've probably driven by the American Antiquarian Society, but did you know it houses one of the largest collections of written work in the U.S.? Worcester County Wonders: A treasure trove of ...
Herbert Wheaton Congdon, architect and author of a definitive book on antique houses in Vermont, "Old Vermont Houses, 1763-1850" [24] in the chapter, "Brick Houses", states that brick houses are somewhat rare in Vermont. "In a heavily forested country like ours, masonry houses are not common.
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It was owned for a time by Frank H. Kelley, who served as mayor of Worcester. In 1882 the house was purchased by Ransom Taylor, a prominent local real estate developer. It remained in Taylor family hands until 1957, when it was sold to Worcester Junior College, which adapted it for classroom use. [2]
The area that is now Grafton was first chartered in 1754, but only began to see permanent settlement in the late 1770s, in the town's Middletown section. Grafton Village developed around the confluence of two branches of the Saxtons River, a tributary of the Connecticut River. The first house, a brick structure built about 1795 by Enos Lovell ...