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Identifier: bulletin25nant (find matches)
Title: Bulletin
Year: 1906 (1900s)
Authors: Nantucket Historical Association
Subjects: Local history
Publisher: (S.l.) : The Association
Contributing Library: Allen County Public Library Genealogy Center
Digitizing Sponsor: Internet Archive

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On thesouth face of the chimney above the roof is a design whichis in shape the letter U inverted thus (\. No explanationhas ever been suggested for this character, but it hascaused the house to be called the Horseshoe. So much repair has been made to keep the structurestanding that much of the original frame has disappeared.The corner posts and plates are modern and so is the roof.A single side post in the Avest chamber indicates that thefirst uprights were of oak with tops bracketed. Summersin first story above and these extend from chimney to endgirt, and are pine, and ten inches square. Girts areeleven inches square and chimney jamb fourteen. Out-side boards vertical and nailed to sills and girts ; no studd-ing ; braces from corner posts to girts. The ships knees nowin sight, holding the girts together were adopted whenthe corner posts had become inferior. The chimneyprovides a semi-circular fire-place for each south room butnone for rooms in leanto. In the second story each room
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John Swain House—Polpis—South Side. 225 has a fire-place. This liouse continued in the Paddockfamily until 1840 when George Paddock sold it to GeorgeTurner, whose heirs in 1881 conveyed it to Tristram Coffinof Middletown, Connecticut. The features in which the Coffin and Swain houses re-semble each other lead to the conclusion that they belongto the same period; that the former is an example of thelarger type, while the Polpis house is an illustration ofthe smaller structure of the same date. A part of the Hamlin Barn at the Cliff was once a houseof the leanto style, and so was the carriage house in therear of the residence of John C. Gardner at the Head ofMain street. Unfortunately the chimney of each has beentaken down many years, and so one essential mark of theage of the house has been destroyed. But there is inboth structures sufficient to deserve a careful descrip-tion. The present Hamlin house was built about 1840, and atthat time the old house was transformed into a barn;

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