COLONIAL HOMES
AND THEIR FURNISHINGS
COLONIAL HOMES
AND
THEIR FURNISHINGS
BY
MARY H. NORTHEND
WITH NUMEROUS ILLUSTRATIONS
BOSTON
LITTLE, BROWN, AND COMPANY
1917
Copyright, 1912,
By Little, Brown, and Company.
THIS BOOK
IS DEDICATED TO
ONE THROUGH WHOSE CONSTANT ENCOURAGEMENT
AND WISE ADVICE I OWE MY SUCCESS
IN THE FIELD OF LITERATURE
PREFACE
The wonderfully good collection of antiques for which Salem is noted wasof great interest to me, being owned by personal friends who kindlyconsented to allow me for the first time to go through their homes andpick out the cream of their inheritance. If the readers are half asinterested in these objects as I have become,—growing enthusiastic inthe work through the valuable pieces found,—they will enjoy thepictures of colonial furnishings, many of which cannot be duplicated inany other collection of antiques. Family bits, wonderful old Lowestoft,and other treasures are included, all brought over in the holds ofcumbersome ships, at the time when the commerce of Salem was at hightide.
To Mr. Charles R. Waters, Mrs. Nathan C. Osgood, Mrs. Henry P. Benson,Mrs. William C. West, Mrs. Nathaniel B. Mansfield, Miss A. GraceAtkinson, Mrs. Walter C. Harris, Dr. Hardy Phippen, Mrs. McDonald White,and Mr. Horatio P. Peirson, as well as many others in my native city, Iowe acknowledgment for their kindness in opening their houses andletting me in, as well as to[Pg viii] Mrs. George Rogers of Danvers, Mrs. D. P.Page, Dr. Ernest H. Noyes, and Mrs. Charles H. Perry of Newburyport,Mrs. Walter J. Mitchell of Manchester, Mrs. Prescott Bigelow and Mrs.William O. Kimball of Boston, Mrs. A. A. Lord of Newton, Mrs. Charles M.Stark of Dunbarton, N.H., and the late Mr. Daniel Low.
The work was commenced at first through ill health and the desire foroccupation, and has met with such good results through an interest inthe story of antiques, that I have to-day one of the most valuablecollections of photographs to be found in New England.
MARY H. NORTHEND.
August 1, 1912.
CONTENTS
| Preface | |
| I. | Old Houses |
| II. | Colonial Doorways |
| III. | Door Knockers |