George I. Briggs House
| George I. Briggs House | |||
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| National Register of Historic Places | |||
 The building in 2008 |
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| location | Bourne , Massachusetts , United States | ||
| Coordinates | 41 ° 44 ′ 31 ″ N , 70 ° 35 ′ 51 ″ W | ||
| surface | 0.5 acres (0.2 ha ) | ||
| Built | 1800, 1830 (new building) | ||
| architect | Josephus Keene, Moses Keene II. | ||
| Architectural style | Greek Revival (new building) | ||
| NRHP number | [1] 81000119 | ||
| The NRHP added | September 10, 1981 | ||
The George I. Briggs House (also Briggs-McDermott House ) is a former residence and now a museum in Bourne in the state of Massachusetts in the United States . It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1981.
architecture
Standing within 0.5 acres (0.2 ha ) on a granite foundation directly on the Cape Cod Canal , the wooden house is two and a half stories high and has a gable roof . The front of the street is framed by paneled pilasters . The entrance door is - atypically - flanked by two windows in the east, but only one in the west. On the first floor there are only three window openings on the front and only two on the upper floor. The other sides of the building are also laid out asymmetrically. The windows are framed with narrow architraves and thin lintels .
history
The building was built in 1800 by Josephus Keene as a one and a half story house and built from scratch in 1830 by his son Moses II with its current appearance in the Greek Revival style. Moses was a carpenter by profession and obviously took a lot of details of the house from the book Practical House Carpenter by Asher Benjamin , which is exhibited in the museum.
The most famous resident of the house was Moses' son-in-law George I. Briggs (1843-1909), who, among other things, led the way in making the town of Bourne independent after it separated from Sandwich in 1884. The house was named after him. The marine painter George Sidney Raleigh (1830-1925), who made portraits of Grover Cleveland and George Dewey and illustrated many government documents, also lived for some time in Bourne. He decorated the ceilings and walls of his own house with paintings of Indians and children, as well as portraits of various people. When there was no more free space in his house and his wife forbade him to decorate the kitchen, he continued to paint in George I. Briggs' house next door. His ceiling painting in the music room of George I. Briggs House is the only work of its kind that has survived in the city.
See also
literature
- Jenkins, Candace; Clarke, Jack: National Register of Historic Places Registration Form. ( PDF ) National Park Service , May 1981, accessed on February 1, 2016 (English, accessible via the "NR" button).
Individual evidence
- ^ National Register Information System . In: National Register of Historic Places . National Park Service . Retrieved April 15, 2008.
- ↑ cf. Jenkins / Clarke, p. 2.
- ↑ cf. Jenkins / Clarke, p. 3.
- ↑ cf. Jenkins / Clarke, p. 3 f.