Keywords: connected farmhouse
Item 31857
Riverside Farm, North Road, North Yarmouth, ca. 1895
Contributed by: North Yarmouth Historical Society Date: circa 1895 Location: North Yarmouth Media: Photographic print
Item 29974
Contributed by: North Yarmouth Historical Society Date: circa 1900 Location: North Yarmouth Media: Photographic print
Exhibit
Throughout New England, barns attached to houses are fairly common. Why were the buildings connected? What did farmers or families gain by doing this? The phenomenon was captured in the words of a children's song, "Big house, little house, back house, barn," (Thomas C. Hubka <em>Big House, Little House, Back House, Barn, the Connected Farm Buildings of New England,</em> University Press of New England, 1984.)
Exhibit
Mural mystery in Westport Island's Cornelius Tarbox, Jr. House
The Cornelius Tarbox, Jr. House, a well-preserved Greek Revival house on Westport Island, has a mystery contained within--a panoramic narrative mural. The floor-to-ceiling mural contains eight painted panels that create a colorful coastal seascape which extends through the front hallway and up the stairwell. The name of the itinerant painter has been lost over time, can you help us solve the mystery of who he or she was?
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Lincoln, Maine - Aaron Woodbury
"Once he left his large log store and farmhouse, it was torn down by the person who purchased it. Aaron died in New York years later."
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Cumberland & North Yarmouth - Brothers of the Civil War
"It is a typical connected farmhouse. The house’s ell, built c. 1863, was of the most modern and efficient designs of that time."
