The year 2022 has flown by as years often do! In May I was able to spend my first Mother’s Day in England as a grandmother with my daughter and her newborn; three generations on such a special day. While there, I was able to meet up with my English house historians, which is...
{Buildings Archaeology Artifactual Feature Origins Part IV — Overhangs and Drops} Introduction As part of the series English Origins of Early American Building Techniques and their connections to English origins, we can see that the commonality among dwellings was not simply in the floor plan. This can be seen in the techniques of framing,...
{Researching Commissioned Officers Gone Awry} We all know about infamous pirates like Blackbeard and Captain Kidd. But beyond those who made a career of it and whose life stories have shown up in numerous books over the centuries, there are those who had a much less notorious history who started out as privateers, commissioned...
{152 Newark Avenue, Jersey City, New Jersey} Of all the celebrations in the month of June, one which may not be well known is one started in 1974, National Candy Month. No surprise that it was originally started by the National Confectioners Association. It originally was celebrated in the month of January when sales...
17 Hubert Street, a building used since the late 1800s as both a commercial and residential building, has an unusual history – its residents kept disappearing. Built by Jeremiah Dimick about 1894, 17 Hubert Street came into the possession of Hoffman Brothers in 1895, a year after the advertisement as a new building. Soon...
by Lorraine Arnold, University of Leicester Thesis, 2019 This study looks at the connection between early American dwelling artifactual features and English prototypes as it relates to human agency. This is accomplished by diachronically examining who and what “agency” is and how behavior is manifested in the physical material of early American vernacular...
In 1864 Charles G. Gunther took office as the Mayor of New York City and was presented with a personalized copy of a book, The Draft Riots in New York. July, 1863. From 1861 to 1865 America was in turmoil with families and friends fighting side by side, and at times on opposite sides,...