Painting
- Title:
- Smith Garrison House, Newmarket, NH
- Object Name:
- Painting
- Object ID:
- 1926.014.01
- Creator:
- Unknown
- Date:
- circa 1890
- Description:
- Landscape painting of the Smith Garrison House, Newmarket, NH, unknown artist, c. 1890. Oil on academy board. Painting of a house. Dirt road in foreground; flowers, rocks, and trees left. Brown two-story house with center chimney, overhanging second floor, and gable roof center middle ground. Building is dilapidated: several windows are boarded up along with front door, chimney is crumbling, windows appear unglazed. Split-rail fence left. Trees in background with blue sky and clouds. Pencil inscription on reverse: "Built in 1637". Gilded molded wood frame.
- Material:
- Academy board
- Dimensions:
- H-9.4 W-11.9 inches
- Provenance:
- Represents the log garrison most commonly known at the Smith Garrison House, one of the numerous fortified dwellings in "ancient Dover". Believed to have been built by David Davis, c. 1695 to replace a garrison destroyed by Indians the previous year. Located overlooking Great Bay in that part of Oyster River, Durham, known as "Lubberland", which in 1870 was annexed to Newmarket. Also known at various times as the Davis, Frost, and/or Blydenburgh Garrison. Demolished c. 1880.
- Credit Line:
- Gift of Helen Champion Bennett
- Subjects:
- Garrison House, Newmarket, NH
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