VERNACULAR ARCHITECTURE GROUP American Tour New England, The Delaware Valley, The Chesapeake September 12-22, 2004

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3 VERNACULAR ARCHITECTURE GROUP American Tour New England, The Delaware Valley, The Chesapeake September 12-22, 2004 Edited by Carl R. Lounsbury Layout and design by Jeffrey E. Klee and William Graham, Jr. Published by the Colonial Williamsburg Foundation for the Vernacular Architecture Group 2004 Colonial Williamsburg Foundation The Colonial Williamsburg Foundation Department of Architectural Research P.O. Box 1776 Williamsburg, Virginia Cover image: A new and exact map of the dominions of the King of Great Britain on ye continent of North America, containing Newfoundland, New Scotland, New England, New York, New Jersey, Pensilvania, Maryland, Virginia and Carolina. [London] Printed and sold by T. Bowles, J. Bowles, and I. King, 1715 [i.e. 1731]. Library of Congress, Geography and Map Division.

4 American Tour Itinerary Vernacular Architecture Group September 12-22, 2004 Sunday, September 12, 2004 Tour participants gather at the Colonial Inn, Concord, MA 6:00 Reception Introduction to the tour Lecture: The Study of Early American Architecture, Carl Lounsbury Dinner at the Colonial Inn Monday, September 13, 2004 South Shore of Massachusetts and Rhode Island Continental Breakfast at hotel Fairbanks House, Dedham, MA Saylesville Friends Meetinghouse, Lincoln, RI (lunch) Valentine-Whitman House, Lincoln, RI Fones Green House, Warwick, RI Walker House, East Providence, RI Return to Concord Dinner on your own in Concord Tuesday, September 14, 2004 North Shore of Massachusetts and Portsmouth, NH Continental Breakfast at hotel Gedney House, Salem, MA Spenser-Pierce-Little House, Newbury, MA (lunch) Rocky Hill Meetinghouse, Amesbury, MA MacPheadris-Warner and Langdon Houses, Portsmouth, NH Reception at the Langdon House (courtesy of Historic New England) Dinner at Woodman s, Essex, MA Return to Concord Wednesday, September 15, 2004 Concord and Northampton Breakfast on your own Free time in Concord in the morning Lunch on your own Depart after lunch for Northampton, MA Parsons House, Northampton, MA Lodging: The Hotel Northampton Dinner on your own in Northampton Thursday, September 16, 2004 Deerfield and the Hudson Valley Sheldon and Wells-Thorn Houses, Deerfield, MA Lunch at the Terrace Café, Deerfield Inn Depart Deerfield for the Hudson Valley ii

5 Thursday, September 16, continued Bronck House and Barn, Coxsackie, Greene Co., NY 7:30 Dinner at the Old Mill Inn, Basking Ridge, NJ Depart Basking Ridge for Newark, DE Lodging: Super 8, Newark Friday, September 17, 2004 Northern Delaware, Southeastern Pennsylvania Dutch House and Amstel House, New Castle, DE (lunch) McCann House, New Garden Township, Chester Co., PA Hayden House, New Garden Township, Chester Co., PA New Garden Quaker Meetinghouse, Chester Co., PA Reynolds House, New Garden Township, Chester Co., PA Pusey House, Avondale vic., Chester Co., Pa 6:30 Dinner at Half Moon Brewery, Kennett Square, PA Return to Newark Saturday, September 18, 2004 Eastern Shore of Maryland Old Drawyers Church, Odessa, DE Carvill Hall, Kent Co, MD Third Haven Quaker Meetinghouse, Talbot Co., MD Tobacco House, Burrage s End, Anne Arundel Co., MD 6:00 Dinner at Lowry s, Tappahannock, VA Travel to Williamsburg, VA Lodging, Woodlands Hotel, Williamsburg Sunday, September 19, 2004 Williamsburg 11:00 Meet at the Visitors Center; tour of Great Hopes, Peyton Randolph House 12:30 Lunch at Chowning s Tavern 2:00 Tour of Bruton Heights Research Campus Dinner on your own Monday, September 20, 2004 James River Tour Matthew Jones House, Newport News, VA St. Luke s Church, Isle of Wight County, VA Foursquare, Isle of Wight County Bacon s Castle, Surry County, VA (lunch) Shirley, Charles City County, VA Return to Williamsburg Dinner on your own iii

6 Tuesday, September 21, 2004 Northern Neck Tour Nelson House, Yorktown, VA Courthouse complex, Gloucester County, VA Christ Church, Lancaster County, VA (lunch) Linden Farm, Richmond County, VA Mt. Airy, Richmond County, VA 7:15 Farewell Dinner at Campbell s Tavern, Williamsburg Wednesday, September 22, 2004 Jamestown and Departure and check out 9:30 Jamestown 11:00 Depart Jamestown (Packed lunch provided) Coach to Richmond airport (by noon) and Dulles (by 3:00) Those not going on to the airports will return to Williamsburg after visit to Jamestown iv

7 Welcome VAG members to this whirlwind tour of the early architecture of New England, the Delaware Valley, and the Chesapeake. For the next ten days you will see a lot of the landmarks as well as some more obscure representatives of the vernacular architecture of early America. When David Martin and John Walker asked me at the spring meeting in Keele in 2000 to think about putting together a program for the 50 th anniversary of the VAG, I welcomed the opportunity knowing it would take awhile for the group to figure out exactly when that auspicious occasion would actually occur. What seemed like a vague promise rapidly matured into reality as the date of the tour was set and I set about recruiting North American VAG members and my colleagues in the Vernacular Architecture Forum to help put together the following program. Fortunately, I was able to recruit early on Claire Dempsey to plan and organize the New England leg of the trip. I owe a great deal to her good natured fortitude. Naturally, I was eager to get Abbott Cummings on board since he has had close connections with a number of VAG members over the years. Others who have been extremely helpful in this endeavor either by open buildings, making calls, or allowing us to reprint their write-up of sites include Anne A. Grady, Myron Stachiw, William Flynt, Steven Tyson, Tom Paske, and Richard Candee. You will meet some of them at various sites. Greg Huber kindly arranged for our visit to the Bronck House in the Hudson Valley. In the Delaware Valley, Bernie Herman, another VAG member, organized students at the University of Delaware and friends to put on a day of visits in New Castle and Chester County, Pennsylvania. Thanks also to Jeffrey Klee, Jeroen van den Hurk, and Peg Jones for their work in arranging the tours in this area. Orlando Ridout V, Michael Bourne, and Peter Kurtze helped coordinate the schedule of buildings that we will visit in Maryland. Finally, I owe a debt to my colleagues at the Colonial Williamsburg Foundation for making the calls, leading tours, and writing up the buildings in Virginia. I would like to specially thank VAG member Cary Carson for helping with the logistics of the Williamsburg tour and for introducing me to the VAG more than twenty-five years ago. My colleagues Willie Graham and Edward Chappell and former colleague Mark Wenger wrote many of the guidebook entries along with Camille Wells. I am especially pleased that Jeff Klee is now the newest member of the Department of Architectural Research. Along with the aid of Billie Graham, Jeff put the guidebook together as well as served as a useful sounding board for ideas about houses to visit and dining opportunities in the hinterlands. We welcome his steady hand. As always no such tour could be possible without the generosity of homeowners, museums, historical agencies, and others who have opened their buildings for our inspection. I would like to thank them all for their hospitality and appreciate their allowing us to crawl in dark places and inspect undusted corners. Carl Lounsbury September 2004 Index of contributors: AG ALC BLH CRL CW CWD EAC JEK JvdH MB MBJ MOS MRW OR RMC ST WF WJG Anne A. Grady Abbott Lowell Cummings Bernard L. Herman Carl R. Lounsbury Camille Wells Claire W. Dempsey Edward A. Chappell Jeffrey E. Klee Jeroen van den Hurk Michael Bourne Peg Jones Myron O. Stachiw Mark R. Wenger Orlando Ridout V Richard M. Candee Steven Tyson William Flynt Willie J. Graham v

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