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Medford Historical Society Papers, Volume 18., The Tufts family residences. (search)
produced the proof of their statements. See register, Vol. VII, p. 53. Those facts, just alluded to, when first read in the Society rooms, were not enthusiastically received, so contrary were they to the published statement of fifty years before, and we recall the statement of one at our side, It's too bad; better have let it been as it was. It was a pleasant myth. The oldest house in America, and such was the caption of an article in Carpentry and Building, published in New York, August, 1884. The wood-cut engravings that illustrate it show the front and easterly end of the house as it then was, an interior view of fireplace and window, and six detail drawings of construction, all from sketches made on the spot by our own artist. These and the technical part of the text are highly interesting and instructive. The historical part follows in its detail Mr. Brooks' history. A correspondent in Medford directed attention to it, and in another column we find the following:—