An architectural monograph on Essex: a Connecticut River town, (1920)
Magonigle, Harold Van Buren, 1867-1935 · [Saint Paul, White Pine Bureau] · leaf 5
ll and it is difficult nowand quite unprofitable fora stranger to attempt tounravel the rival claims topriorit\ and prestige whichthe inquiries in e\en a fewhours sojourn stir up.These Lavs and Ha\denswere all shipbuilders andshipmasters; as a meas-ure of the towns tradi-tions, out of eight… … THE JOHN PRATT HOUSE, MAINESSEX. CON.NECTICUT. ceived anering low, and of which the rivermouth was a gateway, theSound but a \estibule. Nota vestige remains of theold yards where they builtthe tall clipper ships forthe China trade and ves-sels of lesser tonnage forcoastwise traffic: but on aquiet…
Architecture, Domestic
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