The Lee Mansion: What It Was and What It Is (Classic Reprint)

The Lee Mansion: What It Was and What It Is (Classic Reprint)
ISBN-10
1333343930
ISBN-13
9781333343934
Category
Architecture
Pages
22
Language
English
Published
2016-08-24
Publisher
Forgotten Books
Author
Hannah Tutt

Description

Excerpt from The Lee Mansion: What It Was and What It Is It was in the year 1768 that Col. Jeremiah Lee, a wealthy merchant, then at the height of his prosperity, laid the foundation of his princely hor'ne among' the rocks of the little fishing and commercial port of Marblehead;' Fashioned as it was, after the homes of his ancestors, it needed but the hawthorne and the hedgerows to transport one to old England, and indeed the very timbers of which it was framed were grown in the mother country. Built at a cost of over ten thousand pounds, it could hardly be rivaled through out the whole province of Massachusetts Bay - and overshadowing, with its grandeur, the humble home of the fisher folk, no wonder it became to them the Mansion, and the Lee Mansion it has always been, the pride of the whole town. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

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