New England Books

Taverns and Stagecoaches of New England Volume II $12.00
The State Street Bank 1954
Table of contents: travel in the early days, taverns and their landlords, some taverns of old Boston, Bunch of Grapes Tavern, Boston, Green Dragon Tavern, Boston, Stavers starts Boston’s first stagecoach line, White Mountain coaching parades, Eagle Tavern, East Poultney, Vermont , Shelburne, Vermont museum and its stagecoach inn, Red Lion Inn, Stockbridge, Mass, Eagle House, Haverhill, Mass, Horse Marine News, Publick house, Sturbridge, Mass, Groton Inn, Buckman Tavern, Lexington, Mass, Munroe Tavern, Lexington, Mass, pistol ornamentation of stagecoach days, Punch Bowl Tavern, Brookline, the "Old Ordinary," Hingham, Mass, The Tree of Knowledge, Duxbury, mass, Doty Tavern, Ponkapoag, Canton, Mass, the Morse and other early taverns of Walpole, Mass, Israel Hatch, stagecoach and tavern mogul, Cherry Tavern, Ponkapoag Canton, Mass., rare tavern signboards, some Connecticut tavern stories, other new England signboards, the coming of the iron horse.
124 pages, 6x9 softbound, good condition

Meeting House & Church in Early New England $20.00
Edmund W. Sinnott
New York: Bonanza Books 1963
In this beautifully and profusely illustrated volume, Dr. Edmund W. Sinnott describes the character and history of some two hundred of the most interesting and important of the meeting houses and churches built during the first two centuries after the settlement of New England. He discusses the religious climate in which their architecture developed, the characters of the men who built them and who preached or worshipped in them, together with the historical events in which they had a part. In addition, all the surviving ecclesiastical structures built by 1830-more than 500 in all-are listed in an Appendix, giving the more important facts about each. The cut-off date of 1830 allows inclusion of the buildings of the Federal period and a few examples of the Greek Revival.
This book will be of great value to any reader interested in antiquities, and of particular importance to all concerned with American architecture, with the development of its ecclesiastical forms, and with New England history in general.
The complex character of the new England Puritan, says Dr. Sinnott, is illuminated by a knowledge of his meeting house, the building in which both church services and town meetings were held. At first these buildings were very plain structures, but reached a high degree of architectural excellence in the typical white steepled churches of the first third of the nineteenth century.
Dr. Sinnott shows that the architectural evolution of these buildings clearly reflects the changing life and thought of the Puritans during their first two centuries in New England, and the development of the Puritan Tradition, which has had such an important influence in American history. Though most of the building are of the dominant Congregational order, the contributions of other religious bodies, especially Episcopalians, Baptists, and Quakers are also described. One chapter is devoted to a description of the many changes which these old structures have undergone and the reason for such changes.
Dr. Sinnott's pages are lively in style and reflect both his interest in the changing cultural and religious patterns of New England life and his antiquarian's concern for the valuable heritage represented by these buildings. Over the years, fire, wind, decay, and 'changing architectural fashions have resulted in the loss of many old churches, and it is important that the remaining ones be carefully preserved. In Meetinghouse and Church in Early New England, Dr. Sinnott shows not only their architectural and historical importance, but their significance in our history.
243 pages, hardbound, good condition, dust jacket has edge wear.

Saco-Lowell Shops Annual Reports 1924-1960 $45.00
These annual reports give an interesting insight into the history of the Company which manufactured textile equipment, originally with plants in Bitterford and Saco Maine, Lowell, Massachusetts Newton Upper Falls, Massachusetts and Pawtucket, Rhode Island. The main offices were in Boston. Starting out with very plain balance sheet's in 1921, in 1926 adding more narrative detail to 1951 which started the inclusion of photographs.
8x12 hardbound, very good condition