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Urn and willow, on the gravestone of Lois Witham (d.1800). Old Burial Ground, Rockport MA. The rise of secularism during the Federalist Era, roughly lasting from 1790 to 1820, saw the prominence of urn and willow in New England headstones. During this period, the imagery turned away from English influences in favour of Neoclassicism and Greek ...
First period houses in Massachusetts (1620–1659) (12 P) Pages in category "Colonial architecture in Massachusetts" The following 45 pages are in this category, out of 45 total.
Corwin House, Salem, Massachusetts, built ca. 1670, First Period English. American colonial architecture includes several building design styles associated with the colonial period of the United States, including First Period English (late-medieval), Spanish Colonial, French Colonial, Dutch Colonial, and Georgian. [1]
[22] [23] Descendants of the original owner Stephen Wing continued to live in the home until 1942, when the last resident sold it to the Wing Family of America, Inc. [24] Dendrochronological dating was attempted in 2007, but was unsuccessful due to "many of the samples having too many narrow rings, some having too few rings, and to the lack of ...
Beginning in the late colonial period, Massachusetts leveraged its strong seafaring tradition, advanced shipbuilding industry, and access to the oceans to make the U.S. the pre-eminent whaling nation in the world by the 1830s. [62]
People from colonial Massachusetts (20 C, 556 P) Plymouth Colony (6 C, 43 P) Pages in category "Colonial Massachusetts"
These are known as First Period houses of the early to mid–second generation as they were built by the children of the first settlers in the Massachusetts Bay colony. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] During this time, buildings in New England were increasingly designed and built by regionally trained carpenters and were only occasionally influenced by new ...
The Capt. William Green House (or just the Green House) is a historic colonial house at 391 Vernon Street in Wakefield, Massachusetts. It is one of Wakefield's oldest surviving buildings. The house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places as part of two separate listings. In 1989 it was listed under the name "Capt. William Green ...