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Medford Historical Society Papers, Volume 15., Colonial houses—old and new. (search)
Colonial houses—old and new.
THE following article was written a few years since, at the request of Principal Hobbs, for use in the Brooks School, by Mrs. Alfred Brooks, who resides in the house described.
It now appears in the Register with her consent.
The quaint house at the corner of High and Woburn streets, commonly known as the Jonathan Brooks homestead, is one of the old landmarks of Medford.
The writer does not know the date when it was built, but that it belongs to the very early colonial period is shown both by the external and internal architecture.
The rooms are very low, and the great beams of the framework project around the sides and across the middle of the ceilings.
There are two brick ovens, showing the builders intended to be well fed, and all the rooms, except one in the attic, had fireplaces.
The largest of these has been bricked up, but the opening of one large one still remains, with hooks and the hinged place for the crane back of a modern stove.