House and Garden 
spicuous, with roses and honeysuckles hang¬ 
ing thickly over the trellises, within the 
arches of which were placed turnstiles as 
gateways of entrance to the garden paths on 
each side of the house. The walks on the 
eastern side were edged with a tall shrub¬ 
bery of the old-fashioned white, and also 
purple lilacs, that, growing later to the height 
of trees, still survive, and blossom as sweetly 
now as in the days when they were first set 
out, although their aged branches and stems 
require many a prop here and there to sus¬ 
tain them.” 
After this owner had passed away it was 
bought by Mr. Samuel Goddard, in whose 
family it has since remained. The present 
owner, Miss Julia Goddard, tenderly keeps 
it in fine repair, planting and keeping up 
much of the old-fashioned greenery, so that 
it has, to this day, the same old-time atmos¬ 
phere of the past, and for half the year it is 
completely embowered in leaves and blos¬ 
soms of the varying seasons. 
The interior is perhaps less changed, hav¬ 
ing the usual varying levels of floors com¬ 
mon to such houses, but it lacks the broad 
central hall and stairway so common in Colo¬ 
nial mansions. Its narrow hall, with steep 
winding stairway, shows that while the exte¬ 
rior was made grander, the interior retained 
these features of its early cottage days. The 
parlor, of which two views are given, has 
on its walls a pictured paper, perhaps the 
most interesting and well preserved in New 
England. There is a continuous view of 
the Constantinople of the “ Grand Turque,” 
with its domes and minarets piercing the 
beautiful blue sky, with fine trees and pago¬ 
das in gardens sloping down to the blue 
waters of the Bosphorus, upon which grace¬ 
ful kiiiks float laden with beautiful houris, 
guarded by the turbaned Turk. 'The library 
and dining-room are large, low-studded 
rooms, but are sunny and have fine outlook; 
and the old-time atmosphere, despite the 
lack of accessories in the way of furniture 
of the time. The old chambers have, 
for the purpose of ventilation, a door lead¬ 
ing into the corridor, composed of one large 
panel, the full size of the door, filled with 
strong, widely spaced louvres, painted white, 
a feature new to the writer, at least, but a 
valuable idea for country houses of our own 
day. In one of the chambers rests a superb 
antique “highboy” decorated in gold and 
colored lacquers, on a very dark, richly lac¬ 
quered ground, a subtle, indistinct suggestion 
of tortoise shell, all in pseudo-Chinese man¬ 
ner, as if it might have been one of those 
pieces made in Europe and sent to China to 
be decorated. There is a family tradition 
that this piece is one of a set belonging to 
Marie Antoinette, brought over from France 
aboard the ship “Sallie,” and landed in Wis- 
casset, Maine, in 1792. 
The exposures to the sun, and the views 
from the windows are all that could be de¬ 
sired, and one leaves with regret this peace¬ 
ful old house, so permeated with memories 
of quieter days. 
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