{"id":952,"date":"2018-09-25T02:44:53","date_gmt":"2018-09-25T02:44:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/franciscaclaret.com\/wordpress\/?p=952"},"modified":"2018-09-25T02:50:31","modified_gmt":"2018-09-25T02:50:31","slug":"cogswells-grant","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/franciscaclaret.com\/wordpress\/2018\/09\/25\/cogswells-grant\/","title":{"rendered":"Cogswell’s Grant"},"content":{"rendered":"

Cogswell’s Grant was the summer home of preeminent collectors of American decorative arts Bertram K. and Nina Flatter Little. In 1937 they purchased a\u00a01728 farmhouse with a\u00a0 165-acre property overlooking the Essex River .\u00a0\"\"<\/p>\n

After their deaths (1993), the Littles\u2019 left their collection to Historic New England, which opened it to the public in 1998.<\/p>\n

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Every room is filled with antiques dating from the 1700 and 1800\u2019s , for 60 years, the Littles collected Americana they found beautiful and curious. there are boxes\u2014wooden, tin, and Shaker-made,\u00a0birds and eggs: clay and wooden statues and decoys of sandpipers, terns, ducks, and cranes fill shelves and nooks,\u00a0early lamps and candle holders, rugs, farm tools, lanterns, clocks, redware pottery, painted folk art and furnishings\u2014and plenty of portraits.<\/p>\n

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Family Room<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Family Room<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

\"\"Acorn clock- coveted by collectors for its rarity.\u00a0an example of mass-produced Connecticut clocks during their transition from weight- to spring-drive. The use of the spring-drive meant that manufacturers no longer had to build elongated cases to accommodate falling weights.\u00a0The Forestville Manufacturing Company made acorn clocks like this one from 1847 to 1850.<\/p>\n

\"\"Hat Boxes-\u00a0 Made by famous New York City hatmaker Elisha Bloomer in the\u00a0early to mid 19th century.\u00a0 Crescent shaped, covered with paper stenciled with floral and scroll design.<\/p>\n

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Living Room<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Living Room<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

\"\"1870 Primitive Windsor Hoopback armchair.- One way to distinguish\u00a0 the English Windsor (16th century)\u00a0 and the American Windsor (commonly made in the 18th century) is that the seat in the English chair\u00a0 is usually not as thick as American Windsors.<\/p>\n

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\"\"Shaker Boxes –\u00a0Most of the boxes were made by the Shaker religious leaders, the male Elders,\u00a0 traditionally finished with\u00a0milk paint\u00a0made from milk casein, tinted with earth pigments. Milk paint is incredibly durable, lasting hundreds of years when used indoors.<\/p>\n

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Threaded Candle Stand-\u00a019th century. An adjustable double candle stand in oak and cherry, with a threaded and turned standard, rising on tripod turned legs.<\/p>\n

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Kitchen<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Dinning Room<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

American Redware-\u00a0Redware, or red earthenware, is a clay-bodied ware heated in a low-fired kiln at 1,700 to 1,800 degrees Fahrenheit; higher temperatures would melt the clay. Other earthenwares such as the yellow and white variety are made from clay composed of different mineral deposits; they are fired at higher temperatures and are impervious to liquids<\/p>\n

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The clays needed for redware production are found in much of the United States. Whether the clay is gray, blue, yellow, or red when dug from the ground, the iron deposits in the clay turn it the characteristic color of red when fired. At times this color varies from a red-brown to orange, depending on firing temperature and mineral content of the clay.<\/p>\n

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Bedroom<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Guest Bedroom<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Kids Bedroom<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Millinery head block, wood and paper-mache<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Egg Collection<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Paper-mache and wood doll<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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Cogswell’s Grant was the summer home of preeminent collectors of American decorative arts Bertram K. and Nina Flatter Little. In 1937 they purchased a\u00a01728 farmhouse with a\u00a0 165-acre property overlooking the Essex River .\u00a0 After their deaths (1993), the Littles\u2019 left their collection to Historic New England, which opened it to the public in 1998.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/franciscaclaret.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/952"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/franciscaclaret.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/franciscaclaret.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/franciscaclaret.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/franciscaclaret.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=952"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/franciscaclaret.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/952\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":983,"href":"https:\/\/franciscaclaret.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/952\/revisions\/983"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/franciscaclaret.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=952"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/franciscaclaret.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=952"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/franciscaclaret.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=952"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}