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- Title
Abbott Lowell Cummings' Prescience and Dates for First Period Houses of Massachusetts Bay Colony Using Dendrochronology.
- Authors
Huber, Gregory D.
- Abstract
Abbott Lowell Cummings, the grand patriarch and author of early New England architecture, must have had thoughts and ruminations similar to many of our grandparents in the second decade of the twentieth century. In retrospect, our elders had deep personal reactions when the automobile first became readily available around 1910 when a whole new world opened up to people who could afford to buy "the horseless carriage." Motive power by horses used for centuries for transportation and work became obsolete almost overnight. Our grandparents could go just about anywhere they wanted - quickly, and more work could be accomplished. For Abbott Cummings another similar type of dream has just recently occurred which was a dream long hoped for and actually anticipated. This is the use of a new technology to more accurately determine erection dates of early buildings.
- Subjects
MASSACHUSETTS; CUMMINGS, Abbott Lowell, 1923-; ENGLISH architecture; MATERIAL culture; DENDROCHRONOLOGY; TECHNOLOGICAL innovations; ARCHAEOLOGICAL dating; ARCHITECTURAL historians; DOMESTIC architecture
- Publication
Material Culture, 2006, Vol 38, Issue 2, p39
- ISSN
0883-3680
- Publication type
Article