Brick
- Object Name:
- Brick
- Object ID:
- 2004.043.216
- Place of Origin:
- Rye, NH
- Date:
- 1623
- Description:
- Brick fragment from the Great House (Mason's Hall), Odiorne Point, Rye, NH, built 1623. Red brick, worn and soiled. Paper label adhered to face, inscribed in ink, "A brick from Mason Ha[ll] / [t]he first house built in / [New] Hamp. Cape of the Islands, / [Odior]ne's Point, Rye / [ ? ] 1605." Name added later: "Mrs Power". Top right and bottom left corners of label are missing.
- Material:
- Ceramic
- Dimensions:
- H-1 W-2.5 D-2 inches
- Provenance:
- From collection of Dr. Dorothy M. Vaughan (1904-2004), preservationist and collector of Portsmouth, N.H., artifacts.
Given to Dorothy Vaughan in 1971 by Mrs. H. A. Shepherd of New Boston, NH, who received the brick from an Odiorne descendant. See letter from Dorothy to Mrs. Shepherd, May 14, 1971, on Portsmouth Public Library letterhead (in museum accession file). - Credit Line:
- Bequest of Dr. Dorothy Mansfield Vaughan
- People:
- Vaughan, Dorothy M. (1904-2004)
- Subjects:
- Bricks
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