Antique Houses Of Gloucester And Beyond

>           >  A MYSTERY FROM THE DEEP  This is a short but fun post!   For most of my life I have been a doll collector.  From the day as a ten or so year old when I ...

https://prudencefish.blogspot.com/2021/05/a-mystery-from-deep-is-short-but-fun.html

>>>>                  >>>>                OUR CAPITOL                                                   THE WAY IT WAS        �...

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EMERGENCY HELP SAVE THE PLUMMER HOMESTEAD!     It has been a long time since I have posted and probably most of my loyal followers have fallen by the wayside.  An unscheduled fall and b...

https://prudencefish.blogspot.com/2019/12/emergency-help-save-plummer-homestead.html

PART ONE SAVING THE WORST OF THE WORST As a new Realtor I decided to specialize in selling antique or historically significant houses and that is what I did for more than 25 years.  From th...

https://prudencefish.blogspot.com/2018/04/goodbye-old-house-not-yet.html

CHANGING THE FACE OF GLOUCESTER, ONE BUILDING AT A TIME One man, Ezra Lunt Phillips, changed the face of Gloucester,  There is no doubt about it. My acquaintance with the legacy of Ezra P...

https://prudencefish.blogspot.com/2018/03/ezra-phillips-architect-for-gloucester.html

COULD IT GET ANY WORSE? Wherever you are you probably know that New England along with other parts of the country have been putting up with severe cold temperatures compounded by high winds pu...

https://prudencefish.blogspot.com/2018/01/another-update-on-hannah-jumpers-house.html

YOU WON'T BELIEVE YOUR EYES! Hannah Jumper house in better days. If you haven't read my blog post called "Hannah Jumper's House by the Sea" dated September 22, 2017 maybe you should take a...

https://prudencefish.blogspot.com/2017/12/hannah-jumpers-house-revisited.html

This post will be brief compared to recent posts but I have some more information about the old cape and its odyssey around New England. It was 1988 when the Kenyon's abandoned the idea of get...

https://prudencefish.blogspot.com/2017/12/little-antique-cape-lost-and-found-part.html

                                                    HAVE YOU NOTICED THESE TRENDS? Times are changing!  Antique houses and historic building are in jeopardy. Here are...

https://prudencefish.blogspot.com/2017/12/old-houses-threatened-by-fads.html

THE LITTLE HOUSE THAT COULD "This house has more miles on it than my 26 year old Saab Convertible!" These were the words spoken by someone who had just heard the story of this old house...

https://prudencefish.blogspot.com/2017/12/little-antique-cape-lost-and-found.html

DOES THIS STORY MAKE YOU SAD? Rockport's Hannah Jumper house dooryard with its famous blue gate. If a tourist or resident of the quaint New England Town of Rockport at the very tip of his...

https://prudencefish.blogspot.com/2017/09/hannah-jumpers-house-by-sea.html

ABBOTT LOWELL CUMMINGS On June 20th I reported the death of Abbott Lowell Cummings, a man who was an inspiration to those of us who are dedicated to the study and well being of early houses. ...

https://prudencefish.blogspot.com/2017/08/announcement.html

LIVING IN AN HISTORIC DISTRICT Right off the top let me assure you that there are very few places that tell you what color to paint your house.  You probably won't ever have to deal with tha...

https://prudencefish.blogspot.com/2017/08/dont-you-tell-me-what-color-to-paint-my.html

A TERRIBLE FAD THAT HAS BECOME THE NORM      This is an open letter to owners of old houses and prospective owners of old houses.  This post is about BEAMS!      Every homeowner, esp...

https://prudencefish.blogspot.com/2017/08/beams-beams-and-more-beams.html

 WHERE, OH WHERE HAS IT BEEN? This is an amazing and convoluted story of an interesting 19th century family and the adventures of their heirloom soup tureen. The Victorian Soup Tureen O...

https://prudencefish.blogspot.com/2017/07/the-return-of-soup-tureen.html

AUTHENTICITY AND INTEGRITY PREVAIL HERE The Pillsbury-Dickinson House, Georgetown, MA,  Circa 1700 From the 17th century many families from England settled in New England where they estab...

https://prudencefish.blogspot.com/2017/06/this-first-period-antique-house-could.html

MY HOUSE IN A SEASIDE VILLAGE My blog has centered around antique houses of Gloucester, Massachusetts and some beyond recalling stories of other old towns in Essex County. In the many mont...

https://prudencefish.blogspot.com/2017/06/trains-buses-and-summer-on-cape-ann.html

Abbott Lowell Cummings Students of New England architecture, preservationist and lovers of early Massachusetts houses were saddened recently to learn of the death of Abbott Lowell Cummings, a m...

https://prudencefish.blogspot.com/2017/06/abbott-lowell-cummings-mentor-to-many_20.html

In late 2015 the City of Gloucester was threatened with the loss of several houses.  In the end one was saved, one was demolished and one was gutted to the studs and turned into condos.   Gl...

https://prudencefish.blogspot.com/2017/06/tear-it-down-or-save-it-tale-of-two.html

WHERE HAVE I BEEN? It has been some time since I have posted.  I had several posts prepared and just about ready to go when my attention was diverted to what I perceived as an emergency here ...

https://prudencefish.blogspot.com/2017/03/the-remarkable-1764-saunders-mansion.html

FIG NEWTONS: YUK In the 1940s an older couple moved into the house next door to ours.  I liked this husband and wife, the Norwoods, and even as a child was impressed by some of their furnish...

https://prudencefish.blogspot.com/2017/01/still-hating-fig-newtons-still-loving.html

SOLOMON'S TEMPLE REMEMBERED Solomon's Temple in Gloucester, MA.Circa 1883. People on the portico are probably the descendants of Solomon and Mary Davis. Notice the arched trellis entrance...

https://prudencefish.blogspot.com/2016/12/revisiting-solomon-davis-temple-in.html

THE TELLTALE SIGNS OF A PLANK FRAMED HOUSE Plank framed Haskell house in Gloucester.  See details below Sometimes I think I sound like a broken record as I keep reminding people of region...

https://prudencefish.blogspot.com/2016/12/plank-frames-secrets-in-walls-of-old.html

A MESSAGE FOR OWNERS OF ANTIQUE HOUSES AND THEIR REALTORS For nearly thirty years I  was a Realtor selling antique and historic houses, some of them my own.  I still research house historie...

https://prudencefish.blogspot.com/2016/12/which-is-it-house-or-home.html

THE REMARKABLE LIFE OF NANCY GARDNER PRINCE 1799-1859 When my friend, Lise Breen, introduced me to this story I couldn't believe that I had never heard of Nancy Gardner Prince.  Lise is Gl...

https://prudencefish.blogspot.com/2016/12/from-dogtown-to-st-petersburg-russia.html