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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.

House Framing, Winthrop

House Framing, Winthrop, Suffolk County, MA. Surveyed as HABS MA-1331, with a 112-word written history.

From the record

“Sketched on the reverse of two Christmas promotional advertisements from Boston businesses is the framing for a house thought to be dated Most likely the Brown" to whom the holiday mailings were sent was Frank Choteau Brown, a district officer for the early HABS survey.”

Written record, HABS MA-1331 survey. Machine-read text.

surveyed by the federal HABS program as HABS MA-1331 · the record runs 112 words · one of 264 surveyed structures published for this county.

Sources: the survey record at the Library of Congress

Significance

62 words

Source document Quoted word for word from HABS MA-1331. Not written, edited or summarised by this site.

Sketched on the reverse of two Christmas promotional advertisements from Boston businesses is the framing for a house thought to be dated Most likely the Brown" to whom the holiday mailings were sent was Frank Choteau Brown, a district officer for the early HABS survey. Brown dated his framing plans to December 9, Materials: There are field measurements that record the framing.

In context

Winthrop, Massachusetts The place record: every map, photograph and survey of this town.
Suffolk County, Massachusetts 165 topographic sheets across the county.
Library of Congress record The original filed report as the survey filed it.

Also surveyed in Winthrop

1 record

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

SheetStructure SurveyReport
Deane Winthrop House, photograph filed with the federal surveyDeane Winthrop HouseHABS MASS,13-WINTH,1-32 words

Provenance

  • Written history. Quoted verbatim from HABS MA-1331. 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.