Shingled colonial house with outbuilding, black and white photograph – Historic Photo Reproduction
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This rare historic photograph captures Shingled colonial house with outbuilding, black and white photograph in remarkable detail. It comes from the Snapshots of the Past collection, curated over 25 years for its historical value.
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Shingled colonial house with outbuilding, black and white photograph
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The record gives us a shingled colonial house and an outbuilding, which places this photograph in the familiar New England tradition of the weathered-gray wood-shingle farmhouse. Houses of this type, with steep roofs, central chimneys, and small-paned windows, were common across Southeast Massachusetts from the colonial era through the nineteenth century, and many were later clad in the cedar shingles that gradually silvered in salt air. The outbuilding alongside was typically a barn, woodshed, or workshop, a reminder that these properties were working farms or household economies rather than purely residential sites. Black and white views like this one help record how such structures looked before much of the region's early building stock was altered or lost.
| Original scan | 4,654 × 3,634 px · prints to 16 × 12 in at 300 dpi |
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| Reference | 18 |
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