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 […]
Saturday, November 27, 2010
The second 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 From the mid or later 1930s (see car); this came as a framed print with the house. Subjects are either Brazees […]
Saturday, November 27, 2010
The first 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 printed in Bicknell’s History of the Town of Barrington (1898) and reprinted in his Sowams ten years later. Note […]
Thursday, November 25, 2010
Some of the attic floorboards have finally been lovingly transferred from under the eaves, and installed down below, where they can show themselves off. The attic floor is a real anomaly — pine which had never been sanded or finished in any way, and, under the eaves, hardly ever walked on, since the house went […]
Tuesday, October 26, 2010
This week the attic floor has finally been relaid — a big swath of it having been torn up weeks ago to run plumbing vent lines through the floor. This is a vast expanse of untouched hand-planed 18th-century pine floor, nominally 1100 square feet (minus the chimney in the middle) — never sanded, never oiled. […]
Well, the new hearth is in — all eight feet across — and the marvellous new-old-stock bricks from Wickford don’t stink! Contrast to last week’s gaping hearth pit:
Saturday, August 21, 2010
From the Huffington Post today comes something which has apparently been circulating since February: a children’s playground built within the graveyard of the Dutch Reformed Church of Rhinebeck, New York, with gravestones interspersed among the play areas & structures. It’s getting some blog mileage in the creepy humor department, notably a fine sequence of dark […]
During work in the attic a couple of the papers which are pasted to the vertical plank walls have become dislodged, just as several of the planks themselves have also been dislodged. Our foreman had found a very small fragment of the 1758 farm accounts loose on the attic floor; I tucked it into my […]
I meant to showcase this peculiar item earlier, but with the removal of the fireplace surround I finally have decent photographs of it. It is a slab of sorts, bearing the initials and (presumed or approximate) date of the attributed builder of our house, set into the left wall of the firebox of our kitchen […]
