SI Receives Massachusetts Bay Colony House

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Summary

Smithsonian receives an entire 17th century Massachusetts Bay Colony house. The four room, two story house was to be re-erected and furnished as an exhibit in the Natural History Building. The gift of Mr. Arthur Greenwood of Marlborough, Mass., the house was contructed in 1678 and framed with hand-sewn oak timbers and decorated on the outside with clapboard. This was to be the first of a new hall of colonial culture to be installed in the northwest second-floor gallery of the Natural History Building. Exhibit date was set for a year from the date of the article, and the house was to be furnished from the Museum's collections. Carpenter ants from the structure subsequently invaded the Museum.

Subject

  • Greenwood, Arthur
  • National Museum of Natural History (U.S.)
  • Natural History Building

Category

Chronology of Smithsonian History

Notes

  • Torch, April 1955, p. 5
  • Torch, May 1955, p. 5
  • Annual Report of the Smithsonian Institution for the year 1955, p. 16-17

Contact information

Institutional History Division, Smithsonian Institution Archives, 600 Maryland Avenue, S.W., Washington, D.C. 20024-2520, SIHistory@si.edu

Date

1955

Topic

  • Benefactors
  • Exhibitions
  • Gifts

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