OLD-TIME NEW ENGLAND

The Bulletin of THE SOCIETY FOR THE PRESERVATION OF NEW ENGLAND ANTIQUITIES

Harrison Gray Otis House, I 4 I Cambridge Street, Boston

Vol. LXII, No. 4 Spring 1972 Serial No. 228 The Society for the Preservationof New England Antiquities

CHARLESF. BATCHELDER,President WILLIAM ENDICOTT II, Vice-President ABBOTT LOWELL CUMMINGS, Director and Corresponding Secretary BERTRAM K. LITTLE, Recording Secretary WILLIAM B. OSGOOD,Treasurer ROBERTE. MOODY, Director oj.Library GILBERT R. PAYSON,Director of Museum GEORGEL. WRENN III, Associate Director MORGAN W. ‘PHILLIPS, Sqervisor of Properties LLOYD G. MARSH, Assistant Supervisor of Properties WILI.IAM S. REID, Assistant Treasurer RICHARD P. THOMPSON,Business Manager MISS E. FLORENCEADDISON, Assistant to the Director RICHARD C. NYLANDER, Curator oj Collections MRS. GRAHAM P. TELLER, Registrar and Curatorial Assistant DANIEL M. LOHNES,Acting Librarian MISS JOANWILLETT, Executive Secretary MRS. PAUL B. GALLAGHER, Bookkeeper t MISS KATHLEEN DONOVAN,Secretary MRS. FLORENCE M. LEBUFF, Membership Secretary PAUL B. GALLAGHER, Superintendknt Department oj Building Conservation ANDREW LADYGO RICHARD M. DIMOND

STATE VICE-PRESIDENTS Connecticfrt New Jersey PHILIP A. JOHNSON,Norwich MRS. GERALDINE R. DODGE, Madison

Maine New York STEPHEN WHEATLAND, Bangor Miss ELIZABETH HOLAHAN, Rochester MISS ROS.~MONDTHAXTER, Kittery Point Rhode Island New Hampshire JOHN NICHOLASBROWN, Providence RALPH MAY, Portsmouth Vermont STEPHEN GREENE, BrattIeboro

TRUSTEES

1969-1972 1970-1973 I MRS. FRANCESE. FREMONT-SMITH, Miss ROSE T. BRIGCS,Buzzards Bay Cambridge MRS. SUMNER H. BABCOCK, WeBesIey MRS. GEORGEP. FOGG,JR., Chestnut HiII JOHN B. ARMSTRONG,Hingham DAVID C. MARSHALL,M.D., Ledyard, Conn. BARNESRIZNIK, Sturbridge 1971-1974 MRS. FREDERICK C. DUMAINE, JR., Weston MRS. AUSTIN SMITH, Peabody MR. EDMUND H. KELLOGG,Lincoln MR. ROBERTBELL RE?TIG, Cambridge Old-Time New England

THE BULLETIN OF

The Society for the Preservation of

New England Antiquities

VOLUME LX11

JULY,1971 - APRIL, 1972

Harrison Gray Otis House

I 4 I Cambridge Street, Boston, Massachusetts 02 I I 4

APRIL-JUNE, I 972 SPRING ISSUE VOL. LXII, No. 4

OLD-TIME NEW ENGLAND

ABBOTT LOWELL CUMMINGS, Editor BARBARAGORELY TELLER, Associate Editor JOHN S. GARNER, Editorial Assistant

Table of Contents

EDITORIAL PREFACE ...... by Abbott Lowell Cummings 85

THE PROVINCE HOUSE, 1922 . . . . by William Sumner Appleton 87

THE FIRST REMODELING OFTHE PROVINCE HOUSE, 1728 ...... by Fiske Kimball 93

THE PROVINCE HOUSE AND ITS OCCUPANTS ...... by Walter Kendall Watkins. Edited by Richard A?. Candee 95

THE PROVINCE HOUSE DEMOLITION . . . by Thomas T. Waterman 107

THE PROVINCE HOUSE:ENGLISH AND NETHERLANDISH FORMSIN GABLES ANDCHIMNEYS ...... by Nancy Halverson Schless 115

COVER: The Province House, Washington Street, Boston. Engraving from a sketch by Benson J. Lossing, circa 1840.

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