Thursday, August 18, 2011
Here’s something that seems to have flown under the radar. A 1993 book, Historical and Architectural Resources of Barrington, Rhode Island, reproduced two fine old maps, from 1851 and 1870, demonstrating the growth of this town, especially since a railway station was put in at West Barrington in 1868 and development of farmland into bayside [...]
Prudence Island: our Allins came to Barrington from there before 1680; and the story goes that in the winter of 1682, Narragansett Bay froze solid enough for William1 Allin to haul his house over it (presumably minus the stone-end chimney), a few miles up the bay from Prudence to Annawomscutt in West Barrington. Now it’s [...]
One update after last Wednesday’s talk. The night before, fleshing out a slide show, I went back up to the attic to look at the 1798 Federal direct property tax valuation page pasted on the partition wall under the eaves, and took a closeup of what I realize is Thomas Allin’s signature, since it is [...]
Part of the long process of settling into any house seems to be the endless shifting of stuff in basements, attics and garages. This sunny weekend I extracted from the basement an enormous pile of old storm windows — full height wooden sashes, mostly two over two, the style of the ‘modern’ replacement windows which [...]
Tuesday, December 28, 2010
Christmas Eve I heaved a toilet into the dumpster, reducing our backyard ‘pottio’ from two holes to one. Yesterday’s blizzard put a hat on our hardy remainder: Happy New Year, from the Allin House!
Saturday, November 27, 2010
The seventh and last of a meager set of exterior photos dating back to 1898. Jump to the other photos: 1898 | mid 1930s | late 1930s | 1952 | c. 1980 | 1992 | 2010 I took this photo in April 2010. In contrast with previous photo, note the size of the holly and [...]
Saturday, November 27, 2010
The sixth of a meager set of exterior photos dating back to 1898. Jump to the other photos: 1898 | mid 1930s | late 1930s | 1952 | c. 1980 | 1992 | 2010 This was published in Historical and Architectural Resources of Barrington, Rhode Island (1993). Note that the shutters are gone and triple-track [...]
Saturday, November 27, 2010
The fifth of a meager set of exterior photos dating back to 1898. Jump to the other photos: 1898 | mid 1930s | late 1930s | 1952 | c. 1980 | 1992 | 2010 This is a scan of a color photocopy of an undated snapshot in the Barrington Preservation Society file on the house. [...]
Saturday, November 27, 2010
The fourth of a meager set of exterior photos dating back to 1898. Jump to the other photos: 1898 | mid 1930s | late 1930s | 1952 | c. 1980 | 1992 | 2010 Scan of a black & white photocopy of a clipping in the file on the house at the Barrington Preservation Society, [...]
Saturday, November 27, 2010
The third of a meager set of exterior photos dating back to 1898. Jump to the other photos: 1898 | mid 1930s | late 1930s | 1952 | c. 1980 | 1992 | 2010 Scan of a black & white photocopy of a clipping from the 1952 Providence Journal article, from the file on the [...]
