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Created on : April 02, 2014
The office is in the oldest part of the house. It was originally two smaller rooms, but the center wall was later removed, leaving the exposed ceiling beam. The office has been used by the heads of the Ward household for farm business and for their public offices. The framed documents on the walls...
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Created on : April 02, 2014
The east kitchen is in the original part of the house. The brick chimney in the center of the saltbox house originally had three fireboxes on the ground level and one on the second floor but was rebuilt in 1785 to its current configuration....
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Created on : April 02, 2014
The west kitchen was part of the 1785 addition to the house. In addition to its obvious purpose as a kitchen, the room was used by Artemas Ward as a bedroom in his old age. As part of a restoration effort, the walls were painted to imitate wood grain, a treatment that is also apparent in...
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Created on : March 26, 2014
The south bedroom was added to the house in 1830 by Thomas Walter Ward II for his aging father Thomas Walter Ward I. The room is currently furnished with many children’s furniture items and toys, but it was probably not used solely as a children’s room or playroom given its size....
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