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Medford Historical Society Papers, Volume 29., Medford Historical Society. (search)
nt. The Society's Honorary members are Moses W. Mann. Mrs. Elizabeth J. C. Mann. Charles H. Loomis. Committees. Publication. Joseph C. Miller, Jr. Miss Katharine H. Stone. Moses W. Mann. Papers and Addresses. Mrs. Ruth D. Coolidge. Charles T. Daly. Miss Lily B. Atherton. Hall Gleason. Edward T. Bigelow. Membership. The Entire Membership. Library. Moses W. Mann. Charles T. Daly. Hon. William Cushing Wait. Historic Sites. Miss Ella L. Burbann. Howard D. Brown. Edward B. Brown, Tuckahoe, N. Y. Miss Ella L. Burbank. Charles O. Burbank. Charles B. Buss. Fred P. Carr. Miss Elizabeth R. Carty. George G. Colby. Mrs. Marion C. Conant, Weston. Hon. Richard B. Coolidge. Mrs. Ruth D. Coolidge. Life MemberAndrew F. Curtin. Life MemberWalter F. Cushing. Mrs. Carrie E. Cushing. Charles T. Daly. Miss Mary E. I. Davenport. Mrs. H. Abbie Dearborn. Edward B. Dennison. Miss Jessie M. Dinsmore. Charles B. Dunham. Will
Medford Historical Society Papers, Volume 29., The Cradock house, past and future. (search)
The Cradock house, past and future. [Read before the Medford Historical Society by Ruth Dame Coolidge.] THERE is something peculiarly sacred about old tradition. The halo of antiquity hangs about an old house, imbuing it with the mystery and romance of days long gone. So when the modern student ventures to dispel the haze with the rude breath of scientific criticism, he is assailed as a heretic and a vandal. About the Cradock house was such a halo, and even today, my little resume of all that I could glean about the old brick house on Riverside avenue (properly Ship street), is headed by the title of Cradock house. And in spite of all we can do or say it is probable that it will be known as the Cradock house for years to come. A lie travels a mile while truth is getting his boots on, runs the old proverb, and the tradition which apparently assumed its first form in the splendid history of Medford by Rev. Charles Brooks is more potent than the infinite accuracy of Judge Wai
Medford Historical Society Papers, Volume 29., The Renovation of Peter Tufts' house. (search)
rum and old houses, which threw little light on the real history of the old house which is really a monument of olden time. We readily concede that, and in reply ask, how old? It is a remarkable structure. Who built it? and when? are reasonable queries and certainly worthy of an answer. Seen, while riding along the street during the years, like those Charlestown people who have never ascended the monument, I had never been upon its ground or within it till the time referred to by Mrs. Coolidge in her recent address. All these views presented are worth careful scrutiny. Considering that this fine old house has been claimed as oldest in America, a big book might be written regarding the first and early houses, and therefore the oldest houses of the colonists, and of their form, plan and method of construction. Peter Tufts builded better than he knew. He adopted a rectangular form of two stories covered by a gambrel roof, practically a three-floored or storied house, encl