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Famous colonial houses (1921)

Hollister, Paul M. (Paul Merrick), b. 1890, Preston, Ja. (James) · Philadelphia, David McKay company · leaf 93

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, fixed forever in thepose, like the castle of the sleeping princess. No prince will come torouse the place. But better than that, after sixty years of care and acentury and a half of life, it re-creates each year to thousands of pil-grims the crises and victories that wrote our creed as a nation.… … The Quincy Homestead IT is perhaps impolite to compare a Massachusetts family tree to abanyan instead of the conventional elm, but no prowler among herold houses can come away without a feeling that almost everything inNew England is related to almost everything else. Chicago glancesover Bostons…

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