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Decorative drawing: the front elevation of a nineteenth-century American timber-framed building, its clapboards,.... Not a photograph of this place.

Captain William Nichols House, 5 Harris Street, Newburyport

Captain William Nichols House, 5 Harris Street, Newburyport, Essex County, MA. Surveyed as HABS MA-385, with a 172-word written history.

From the record

“Notes for this building suggest it was constructed in at the time of the survey questionnaire, George Cashman owned it.”

Written record, HABS MA-385 survey. Machine-read text.

surveyed by the federal HABS program as HABS MA-385 · the record runs 172 words · one of 230 surveyed structures published for this county.

Sources: the survey record at the Library of Congress

Significance

97 words

Source document Quoted word for word from HABS MA-385. Not written, edited or summarised by this site.

Notes for this building suggest it was constructed in at the time of the survey questionnaire, George Cashman owned it. Later sources raise the possibility the house was demolished, and some of its paneling used in a period room in the American wing of the Metropolitan Museum in Materials: There are field notes for No. 5 Harris Street. 1 Massachusetts Cultural Resource Information System (MAORIS), Inventory No. This, however, references the Second Presbyterian Meeting House (now Greek Orthodox Church) at 5-7 Harris Street. 2 "The Berkard Room" Metropolitan Museum of Art Bulletin'New Series 6, no. 5 (January

In context

Newburyport, Massachusetts The place record: every map, photograph and survey of this town.
Essex County, Massachusetts 300 topographic sheets across the county.
Library of Congress record The original filed report as the survey filed it.

Also surveyed in Newburyport

21 records

The federal surveyors worked through Newburyport building by building. These are the other structures they measured and filed a report on, longest report first.

SheetStructure SurveyReport
Newburyport Powder HouseHABS MA-2882,137 words
Bradbury-Spalding House & GardenHABS MA-1340246 words
First Religious Society of Newburyport Meeting HouseHABS MA-1345237 words
Abraham Wheelwright House & Garden, photograph filed with the federal surveyAbraham Wheelwright House & GardenHABS MASS,5-NEWBP,5-47 words
Meetinghouse of First Religious Society, photograph filed with the federal surveyMeetinghouse of First Religious SocietyHABS MASS,5-NEWBP,7-44 words
Hennessey House, photograph filed with the federal surveyHennessey HouseHABS MASS,5-NEWBP,11-43 words
Globe Steam Mills, photograph filed with the federal surveyGlobe Steam MillsHABS MASS,5-NEWBP,25-42 words
John N. Cushing Place, photograph filed with the federal surveyJohn N. Cushing PlaceHABS MASS,5-NEWBP,10-40 words
Regan House, photograph filed with the federal surveyRegan HouseHABS MASS,5-NEWBP,17-40 words
Pierce-Knapp-Perry Place, photograph filed with the federal surveyPierce-Knapp-Perry PlaceHABS MASS,5-NEWBP,24-38 words
Highway Cut-off Demolition Area, photograph filed with the federal surveyHighway Cut-off Demolition AreaHABS MASS,5-NEWBP,18-35 words
Stockman House, photograph filed with the federal surveyStockman HouseHABS MASS,5-NEWBP,15-35 words
Thibault House, photograph filed with the federal surveyThibault HouseHABS MASS,5-NEWBP,20-35 words
Gaol, photograph filed with the federal surveyGaolHABS MASS,5-NEWBP,19-34 words
Moulton Place, photograph filed with the federal surveyMoulton PlaceHABS MASS,5-NEWBP,23-34 words
Thurlow House, photograph filed with the federal surveyThurlow HouseHABS MASS,5-NEWBP,12-34 words
Stonecutting Shop, photograph filed with the federal surveyStonecutting ShopHABS MASS,5-NEWBP,16-32 words
Charles Stockman House, photograph filed with the federal surveyCharles Stockman HouseHABS MASS,5-NEWBP,21-28 words
Marden House, photograph filed with the federal surveyMarden HouseHABS MASS,5-NEWBP,13-27 words
Semple HouseHABS MASS,5-NEWBP,14-27 words
William Wheelwright PlaceHABS MASS,5-NEWBP,22-23 words

Provenance

  • Written history. Quoted verbatim from HABS MA-385. United States federal work, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.
  • Text capture. Machine-read from the scanned typescript filed with the survey, so spelling and spacing follow the original page.
  • How this page is made. Documentary passages are quoted from linked records; page labels and counts are clearly marked as presentation or calculations.