Copyright, 1914,
By Little, Brown, and Company.
THIS BOOK
IS DEDICATED TO
THE BEST OF MOTHERS
PREFACE
The study of old houses grows in interest with each additional discovery of good material, such as can be found in the old New England towns and cities, more especially those along the seacoast. The preservation of these old houses has done much to give us correct ideas of the interiors, though many of these, with the change of owners, have been stripped of their colonial furnishings.