The oldest woodframe house still standing in North America : a seventeenth century colonial room modeled after the parlor of the Fairbanks House of Dedham, Massachusetts (c. 1637) / Includes inventory, furnishings, and text by Robert Trent, 1980.

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Trent, Robert. The oldest woodframe house still standing in North America : a seventeenth century colonial room modeled after the parlor of the Fairbanks House of Dedham, Massachusetts (c. 1637) / Includes inventory, furnishings, and text by Robert Trent, 1980.

The oldest woodframe house still standing in North America : a seventeenth century colonial room modeled after the parlor of the Fairbanks House of Dedham, Massachusetts (c. 1637) / Includes inventory, furnishings, and text by Robert Trent, 1980.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/122503680

The volume opens to make three walls of a parlor room. There are eight loose sheets. One sheet describes the house, its owner, Jonathan Fairbanks, and his wife, Grace, and gives an inventory of goods in the house at the time of Jonathan's death. The remaining seven sheets contain items to be cut out and used with the house, including: a livery cupboard, a chair, figures (Jonathan, Grace, and a child), the parents' bed, feather pillows, a mattress, books, a trundle bed, and a sea chest. The walls feature windows, doors, a fireplace, a coat rack, and guns. There are directions for assembly on the back of the volume.

8 sheets (uncut) : ill.

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