Dunning & Donaghe letters to Thomas W. Smith & Co., 1828-1831.

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Dunning & Donaghe letters to Thomas W. Smith & Co., 1828-1831.

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14 ALS from Dunning & Donaghe, a lumberyard company in New Haven, Connecticut to Thomas W. Smith & Co., proprietors of a lumber mill in Augusta, Maine. The letters, primarily lumber orders, reflect Dunning & Donaghe's concern with lumber quality and interest in the possibilities for hemlock boards. Bills of timber are given for the building of the new statehouse in New Haven (designed by Ithiel Town and opened in 1830), wharf logs needed by the (Farmington?) Canal Committee, as well as for an unidentified small church and three small dwellings.

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New Haven. State House.

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Town, Ithiel, 1784-1844

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Ithiel Town was an architect and bridge builder. He studied with Asher Benjamin in Boston and was a partner with Alexander J. Davis for a few years. Town was a leader in the Greek and Gothic Revival styles in American architecture. But it was his profits from bridge building that enabled him to amass the largest library of art, architecture, and engineering books and prints in the United States. He began to sell off his library before his death in 1844. From the description of Auctio...

Dunning & Donaghe (New Haven, Conn.)

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Thomas W. Smith & Co. (Augusta, Maine)

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