Bench
- Object Name:
- Bench
- Object ID:
- 2006.060.03
- Place of Origin:
- Dover, NH
- Date:
- 1910-1920
- Description:
- Small bench, pine, Arts and Crafts style, 1910-1920. Impressed mark under seat, "MADE AT / MIDDLEBROOK / FARM / DOVER N.H." Made of four boards, all 1.2" thick: top, two sides (legs), and stretcher. Top has curved ends; attached to sides with four steel angle brackets. Arched stretcher, attached to sides with four decorative mortise and tenon joints secured with wedges (two wedges missing). Three decorative holes below each lower joint. Bottom of each side shaped and notched to form two feet.
- Material:
- Wood
Pine - Dimensions:
- H-18 W-33 D-11.4 inches
- Provenance:
- Middlebrook Farm was the home of NH Governor Charles H. Sawyer (1840-1908) and his wife, Susan Cowan Sawyer. They moved there c. 1900 when Gov. Sawyer retired. He was also president of Sawyer Woolen Mills. They established a dairy farm at Middlebrook, which operated until the 1940s.
- Credit Line:
- Bequest of Charles H. Sawyer
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