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Thomas Lee House, East Lyme, Connecticut. A saltbox house is a gable-roofed residential structure that is typically two stories in the front and one in the rear. It is a traditional New England style of home, originally timber framed, which takes its name from its resemblance to a wooden lidded box in which salt was once kept.
The Thomas Lee House is located in southwestern East Lyme, on the south side of CT 156 just east of Rocky Neck State Park.It is a 2 + 1 ⁄ 2-story structure, with a post-and-beam timber frame erected on six 2-story wall posts, and covered by a steeply pitched roof with a large brick central chimney.
Oldest surviving stone American Colonial house in New England, museum since 1899. [1] Buckingham House: Milford: 1640 Core dates to 1640 modifications in 1725 and 1753. NRHP. [2] [3] Feake-Ferris House: Greenwich: 1645 Core dates to 1645 modifications in 1689. [4] Thomas Lee House: East Lyme: 1660 Began as a one-room house, museum since 1897 ...
Everything you need to know about a saltbox style house, including its history, key design characteristics, and the story behind its unique saltbox name.
Thomas Lee House: East Lyme: CT 1664 Residential One of the oldest wood-frame houses in Connecticut still in its primitive state. Deacon John Moore House: Windsor: CT 1664 Residential Moore was also a woodworker known for using the foliated vine design, which depicts vines and blossoms carved in shallow relief with flat surfaces.
Pages in category "Saltbox architecture in Connecticut" The following 21 pages are in this category, out of 21 total. ... Lay-Pritchett House; Thomas Lee House ...
This is a list of historic houses in Massachusetts.. Samuel Lincoln House, Hingham, built on land purchased 1649 by Samuel Lincoln, ancestor of President Abraham Lincoln Stephen Phillips House is over 200 years old and is located in the Chestnut Street District, in Salem, Massachusetts, United States.
Thomas Griswold House Museum: Guilford: New Haven: Historic house: Operated by the Guilford Keeping Society, includes the late 18th-century period New England saltbox house, a blacksmith shop, barn with farm tools and implements, two corn cribs and a Victorian era three seat outhouse Thomas Lee House and Museum: East Lyme: New London: Historic ...