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A saltbox house is a gable-roofed residential structure that is typically two stories in the front and one in the rear. It is a traditional New England style of home, originally timber framed , which takes its name from its resemblance to a wooden lidded box in which salt was once kept.
The Montgomery Saltbox Houses are a pair of historic saltbox houses in Montgomery, Ohio, United States.Built in 1800, [1] they were constructed as homes for some of the city's founding families, who settled in the area in the spring of 1795 after travelling from Montgomery in eastern New York in the aftermath of the signing of the Treaty of Greenville.
Home of political activists involved in causes including abolitionism and women's suffrage. NRHP. [47] James Hazelton House: Haddam: 1720 Late First Period house. NRHP. [48] Samuel Huntington Birthplace: Scotland: 1723 Saltbox home of a signer of the Declaration of Independence and Governor of Connecticut, now a museum. [49] Jared Eliot House ...
The Saltbox homes known for their steep roof among the back the house made for easy construction among colonists. [2] The Cape Cod style homes were a common home in the early 17th of New England colonists, these homes featured a simple, rectangular shape commonly used by colonists. [ 3 ]
It is the saltbox home in which the sixth United States President, John Quincy Adams, was born in 1767. The family lived in this home during the time John Adams helped found the United States with his work on the Declaration of Independence and the American Revolutionary War. His own birthplace is only 75 feet (23 m) away, on the same property.
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The Nehemiah Royce House, also known as the Washington Elm House, is a historic home located at 538 North Main Street in Wallingford, Connecticut, United States.The saltbox house was constructed in 1672.
The Salt Box was a house built in the early 1880s in the Bunker Hill section of Los Angeles, California. Designed in the saltbox style that was popularized in New England, [ 2 ] it was originally located at 339 South Bunker Hill Avenue (231 South Bunker Hill prior to a renumbering in the early 1890s).