It is easy to gain a definite notion of the furnishing of colonial houses from a contemporary and reliable source - the inventories of the estates of the colonists.
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Alice Morse Earle
These are some quotes by American author Alice Morse Earle Historian, who lived between April 27, 1851 and February 16, 1911.
Quotes by Alice Morse Earle
By the year 1670, wooden chimneys and log houses of the Plymouth and Bay colonies were replaced by more sightly houses of two stories, which were frequently built with the second story jutting out a foot or two over the first, and sometimes with the attic story still further extending over the second story.
Alice Morse Earle
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