Rev. Henry was my 10th gr.grandfather. I visited the homestead 5 yrs ago and it is such a well built home. You really step back in time while inside. Thanks for bringing back the memory.
Hi Andrew! The large piece of furniture is a Court Cupboard, a 17th century and earlier English piece. We have 2 and love the age and history! Thank you for the wonderful old homes you share with us!
My 10th gr-grandparents’ house, built in 1659, is still standing in Greenwich, CT. They built it by hand. It is privately owned and is being restored to its original condition.
Absolutely gorgeous! I never would have guessed that it was in the US. I think it wasn't unusual for stone or wood walls to be lime washed or lime plastered, which ends up looking white or off white if you don't add a natural pigment. Lime pulls moisture out of masonry, which keeps mortar from deteriorating while allowing the entire wall to naturally breathe. Lime is a natural insecticide. The high pH of lime wash means it's very antibacterial. Lime wash/plaster is also incombustible and will help your home to not catch on fire or can limit the spread of a fire. It's also odorless and not an allergen. Lime is made from super heated limestone which I think that general area has a good amount of. After it's heated, you throw water on it and it has an incredible chemical reaction that leaves you with lime. It's truly a wonder product and amazing technology that's been around for thousands of years.
According to a virtual tour one can take of the house, the niches, being a part of the fireplace, were used to store things meant to be dry like books, herbs and gunpowder.
Always want to live in a stone house. My husband lived in one in Ireland, it was about 200 yrs old at the time. It is now called “ The Belfray Country Inn”. Amazing stories.
So glad you did the Whitfield House. I’m a direct descendant of Henry Whitfield but have never been in the house. In my research I found out that Henry was eventually offered a post at Winchester Cathedral back in England so he returned and left his family behind-permanently as far as I can tell.
My goodness what a gorgeous house! In touring some museum homes here in Eastern Canada, particularly in Quebec City, the interior walls were often white washed to make them reflect light better coming in through the windows as well as protect them from grime and smoke build up. It made the walls easier to clean. I love your channel! You are a great story teller! Thank you.
Amazing house! I think the walls would have been painted/white washed. In England at that time that was what was done. Usually with lime wash which was white. Fancier houses and castles even had plastered walls. Cleaner and brighter inside places with small widow areas.
The sandstone walls of the Whitehouse were also whitewashed, and that whitewash included linseed oil and lead. It seems that the term "whitewash" covered a variety of mixtures, depending on the substrate and the qualities desired, but the results were typically translucent and allowed some permeability, to avoid trapping moisture.
Well done you and thank you for taking us on your journey. I am amazed by the width of the boards on the interior walls, but then again they were using virgin timber. I also believe the niches were used to keep items dry as they would have been kept warm by the fireplace.
Thanks for the video! Great Old House! Fireplaces, floors, and leaded casement windows are amazing. The carved 17th C furniture pieces fit so well. Also, appreciate the rope beds, especially the fold-up which pre-dates the Murphy Bed. Will have to visit in Guilford!
I am the direct descendant of Puritan settlers who arrived via the Diligent in Plymouth, MA in 1638 so it’s great to see a contemporaneous home and furnishings of the era. Thank you for sharing this beautiful and historic house.
Thanks for doing these videos. It gives me a chance to “travel” to places I will never see in person. I love learning about the history behind old houses and buildings. Also, thank you for your service to our country. My father was also a US Navy Veteran, who served during WWII on the Shangri-La, an air craft carrier.
Wonderful house and presentation. Mansion is correct! Noticed the width of the wooden wall boards inside as being amazingly wide---like sheets of plywood, but not.
What a national historic treasure! My ancestor arrived in Massachusetts around the time this house was built. It would be interesting to know the craftsmanship it took to build it. Thank you for another excellent tour --- love this channel!
Enjoyed the house tour. I've never seen a window placed directly in a corner like the one in this house. Judging from the photo in the background of you and your shirt, you were in the service. Thank you for your service and taking the time to produce these videos. Take care and God bless.
WOW!! I'm amazed at how straight all the lines are. I assume that's because Mr Guilford was rich enough to afford to have it made very well in the first place and then maintained properly afterward (and obviously everyone whose hands the house has passed to since him have also been able to put in the money and work to maintain it, which is VERY fortunate). Would love to see more like this. P.S. When you first started including your face in the corner of the screen, you asked viewers for feedback. Now that I've seen some videos the new way, I'd say it doesn't work well for me. I find it distracting and unnecessary for this sort of video. Sorry, but since you asked :) I do appreciate these videos though, thank you!
white washing the walls was something that was sometimes done. I believe it not only helped reflect more candle light but the lime in it helped make more pest resistance.
I love this house! I agree with you about those huge logs in that one fireplace. I would switch them out for smaller logs. Your channel is one of my favorite channels in here. Thank you so very much for sharing these beautiful homes with us! I would happily live in any of the homes you've shared.
5:10 I’d like to point out the width of the wall boards. The wall looks to be about 10’ long yet only 7 boards were needed to cover it. The last one the right looks around 24” wide. This pine came from old growth forest which was covering the much of the continent in the seventeenth century.
Perhaps they did a "white washing" of the walls? But probably not originally, maybe sometime later?? I like it because it brightens/freshens up the room a bit. Stone walled-houses are my favorite, though, and this one is a beauty!
This is my favorite, of all the houses you have toured, because of its age, condition, and it is stone. I also like the combination of English furniture and early (primitive) American furniture. My guess is that is how it would have been for Henry Whitfield's home in the 1600s. I often wonder what life must have been like for them. My earliest ancestors (in America) were in the New Haven/Old Saybrook area in the late 1600s.
Those thick stone walls and steep pitch roof kept this home solid for centuries. I wonder if restoration was done, or if it had continuous occupation as a home until 1899. Years of neglect and leaky roofs can harm any building that stands empty. I agree that the furnishings definitely add to the feel of it being very, very old. Always love to see our oldest U.S. (yes, I know, not 'the states yet') houses. Though California did have houses, churches, and military buildings (when we were a colony of Spain) dating back this far, the majority were adobe (un-fired mud/clay) brick, which did not stand the test of time. This strong stone house is a gem.
That is a tremendous amount of stone. I find the craftmanship astounding, I say for 1639. 400 years later, I would be proud to live in that house. I have built cookie cutter houses, you follow the prints, whack it out, go on to the next. I really wonder if workmen felt any different about their work then.
optional window cavities? next to the fireplace. Wonder if it was a workshop, large clock is reminiscent. It feels so secure, a world of it's own but not claustrophobic. Totally livable. Stone collects heat in winter and keeps it cool summers.
Stayed at an inn up North of Madison,Wisconsin which had a great room and fireplace of that size. They were burning that size of logs in it to heat the room. The room was used for dinning and socializing.
I’d imagine they did lime wash the interiors white back when the house was built. The white would help reflect what little light there was in the home. Windows and doors were smaller to keep heat in. Also, lime wash helped keep pests out of the home. They did that even in medieval times. Very cool house. Thanks for sharing! Those huge fireplaces are my favorite feature of old homes like this.
I have done a good amount of research/studying the history of Christianity, the history of the Roman “church,” the Protestant Reformation, etc…. I believe we have been taught a bit of twisted history regarding New England, the Puritans, the “pilgrims” who came to America. They were fleeing the Roman Catholic inquisitions. I suspect that those “witches” (as we are taught today) were suspected of being catholic and/or bringing pagan/Babylonian rituals or beliefs into the settlement. Few people know that before the 1776 Revolutionary War, Catholic “masses” were forbidden/against the law. The pagan “Christ-mass” festival was against the law. Prior to 1776, 12 of the 13 colonies were Protestant. Only the colony called “Mary-land” was catholic. The infiltration of Jesuits and catholics into Protestant New England was a constant threat to Christianity and breaking away from the Roman “church.”
Love the old stone houses of New England. This one is a jewel. The attic is beautiful. I was trying to imagine how they got the furniture and display cases up into the attic via the small stairways!
I really enjoy this YT channel since becoming a subscriber, oh, maybe a couple months ago. Good content, quality of production and presentation of these charming and historic old New England dwellings. Cheers. PS: Go Navy!
Attics, although just basic and crude, held the history of the family. Old trunks full of memories and old furniture, keepsakes, etc. A sense of generational occupants.
My 11th great uncle home and inn was built around 1740 or so in Smithtown Long Island the grandness of these old homes and they still live on. Thank you for sharing
Seeing as stone is our Great Natural Resource but almost never used for building because of a lack of ingredients for mortar, does anyone know what was used for this house?
We live in Killingworth just two towns from Guilford. Have been to that old house and it is really amazing to walk through. Interesting video and you have a new sub! 👍👍
When I visited, twenty years ago, there was a writing desk sitting on a chest, that had belonged to my ancestor, c.1600’s. Don’t see it here. 🤔 This was the fortress in town.
Beautiful house! I would love to live in it. At 6:30 I believe the cavities in the walls above the fireplace may have been used to warm items since at least one is so close to the fireplace. In masonry heater type stoves there are often cavities right by the chimney or in the back of the fireplace if it is in the middle of the house which are used for actual baking and warming food. Perhaps this is what those are for. If not, it was probably built that way so the family cat had a nice warm place to sleep too. What a dream house for a cat! Big windowsills to stretch out in... I think the whitewashed walls are probably accurate since the house is so well to do and built with fine materials. It would be much more livable in the winter with minimal lighting. Nice video.
I am tempted to think the white walls were originally a limewash, a technique common during colonial times & in the U K. on stone to prevent mold & mildew.
Yes, the walls would have been whitewashed, which is lime (mineral) paint. It serves to reflect low light, like candle light. Whitewash is a fire retardant, helps to prevent mold and helps to prevent disease
The walls would definitely have been "painted". It was probably a lime (mineral, not color) plaster coating. Castles also had lime plaster coating, even on the outside, as opposed to what we are used to seeing which is plain stone.
CAN YOU DO MORE OF THESE IN CONNECTICUT PLEASE? ALSO, I WANT TO OWN AND LIVE IN ONE OF THESE HISTORIC HOMES. WOULD YOU PLEASE DO VIDEOS ON OLD HISTORIC HOMES THAT ARE CURRENTLY UP FOR SALE? SO THAT WE CAN LEARN THE PROS AND CONS TO BUYING AND LIVING IN ONE OF THESE 200 TO 400 YEAR OLD HOUSES? THE COSTS, THE PROBLEMS AND UPKEEP, WHERE TO BUY TIME PERIOD APPROPRIATE FURNISHINGS AND FURNITURE, ETC.? THANK YOU, THAT WOULD BE MOST HELPFUL AS WELL AS QUITE INTERESTING. LASTLY, I'VE TRIED TO LOOK UP INFORMATION ON REV. WHITFIELD...BIO, ETC., BUT I COULDN'T FIND ANYTHING ON HIM. I AM A FORMER CATHOLIC SEMINARIAN AND WANTED TO LEARN MORE ABOUT HIM AND HIS LIFE, LEGACY, AND MINISTRY, ETC. WHY WAS HE SO FAMOUS? AND WAS HE RICH? WHY DID THE TOWNS PEOPLE BUILD HIM SUCH A LAVISH AND STURDY, EXPENSIVE HOME?? HE MUST HAVE DONE SOMETHING TO DESERVE IT.
Interior walls would indeed have been white. They wouldn't have been painted white but white -washed with slaked lime. The white walls would have aided with the reflecting of available light back before electric light and even burning of candles would have been an expensive thing. Ambient light from outside could be used well into the evening in summer to continue to work or read before one had to resort to artificial light. I've read by walls just like this and once your eyes adjust you can really do whatever is necessary long after the light begins to wane outside.
Rev. Henry was my 10th gr.grandfather. I visited the homestead 5 yrs ago and it is such a well built home. You really step back in time while inside. Thanks for bringing back the memory.
Hi Andrew! The large piece of furniture is a Court Cupboard, a 17th century and earlier English piece. We have 2 and love the age and history! Thank you for the wonderful old homes you share with us!
Yeah I was gonna say Court Cupboard. My ancestors also brought one from England when they got here.
My daughter bought one when she was living in England.
My 10th gr-grandparents’ house, built in 1659, is still standing in Greenwich, CT. They built it by hand. It is privately owned and is being restored to its original condition.
So, you're a descendant of racist colonizers. For shame!
That's amazing that you can track your genealogy back that far and know where there actually house is, very cool!
Absolutely gorgeous! I never would have guessed that it was in the US.
I think it wasn't unusual for stone or wood walls to be lime washed or lime plastered, which ends up looking white or off white if you don't add a natural pigment. Lime pulls moisture out of masonry, which keeps mortar from deteriorating while allowing the entire wall to naturally breathe. Lime is a natural insecticide. The high pH of lime wash means it's very antibacterial. Lime wash/plaster is also incombustible and will help your home to not catch on fire or can limit the spread of a fire. It's also odorless and not an allergen. Lime is made from super heated limestone which I think that general area has a good amount of. After it's heated, you throw water on it and it has an incredible chemical reaction that leaves you with lime. It's truly a wonder product and amazing technology that's been around for thousands of years.
Thank you for that excellent explanation.
Makes sense, considering the limestone construction.
How interesting. Thanks so much.
According to a virtual tour one can take of the house, the niches, being a part of the fireplace, were used to store things meant to be dry like books, herbs and gunpowder.
Hm not sure I would keep my gunpowder next to the fireplace :)
That's super solid construction 💪 It will be around for another 400 years long after we are gone
Always want to live in a stone house. My husband lived in one in Ireland, it was about 200 yrs old at the time. It is now called “ The Belfray Country Inn”. Amazing stories.
So glad you did the Whitfield House. I’m a direct descendant of Henry Whitfield but have never been in the house. In my research I found out that Henry was eventually offered a post at Winchester Cathedral back in England so he returned and left his family behind-permanently as far as I can tell.
My goodness what a gorgeous house! In touring some museum homes here in Eastern Canada, particularly in Quebec City, the interior walls were often white washed to make them reflect light better coming in through the windows as well as protect them from grime and smoke build up. It made the walls easier to clean. I love your channel! You are a great story teller! Thank you.
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Love this historic stone house . Thanks for sharing . 👍
Thank for the tour of this awesome stone home. Beautifully built
Amazing house! I think the walls would have been painted/white washed. In England at that time that was what was done. Usually with lime wash which was white. Fancier houses and castles even had plastered walls. Cleaner and brighter inside places with small widow areas.
Yes, lime because it was also disinfectant. So it looked good, brightened up the place and it was useful. Sanitary if you will.
The sandstone walls of the Whitehouse were also whitewashed, and that whitewash included linseed oil and lead. It seems that the term "whitewash" covered a variety of mixtures, depending on the substrate and the qualities desired, but the results were typically translucent and allowed some permeability, to avoid trapping moisture.
A beauty, thank you, those are quite some chimneys for the early days, that house could have served as a fort.
I love the lit fireplace!
Well done you and thank you for taking us on your journey. I am amazed by the width of the boards on the interior walls, but then again they were using virgin timber. I also believe the niches were used to keep items dry as they would have been kept warm by the fireplace.
Greetings from Laos. I think the massive logs are great for the fireplace. The fireplace is huge. I like it.
Painted White Rock Walls ■ Compliment and contrast with the wood work and furnishings perfectly!! M
Thanks for the video! Great Old House! Fireplaces, floors, and leaded casement windows are amazing. The carved 17th C furniture pieces fit so well. Also, appreciate the rope beds, especially the fold-up which pre-dates the Murphy Bed. Will have to visit in Guilford!
Beautiful home in any age.
Absolutely amazing. Thanks so much for another wonderful tour!
Thank you Andrew!! I love Guildford and I especially love CT! This house is spectacular!
Gorgeous!
Another reason to love Connecticut.
I am the direct descendant of Puritan settlers who arrived via the Diligent in Plymouth, MA in 1638 so it’s great to see a contemporaneous home and furnishings of the era. Thank you for sharing this beautiful and historic house.
Thanks for doing these videos. It gives me a chance to “travel” to places I will never see in person. I love learning about the history behind old houses and buildings. Also, thank you for your service to our country. My father was also a US Navy Veteran, who served during WWII on the Shangri-La, an air craft carrier.
I appreciate his service. I was on the USS Monterey CG-61 and the USS Bainbridge DDG-96.
Thank you! Excellent as usual.
Wonderful house and presentation. Mansion is correct! Noticed the width of the wooden wall boards inside as being amazingly wide---like sheets of plywood, but not.
What a national historic treasure! My ancestor arrived in Massachusetts around the time this house was built. It would be interesting to know the craftsmanship it took to build it. Thank you for another excellent tour --- love this channel!
Enjoyed the house tour. I've never seen a window placed directly in a corner like the one in this house. Judging from the photo in the background of you and your shirt, you were in the service. Thank you for your service and taking the time to produce these videos. Take
care and God bless.
WOW!! I'm amazed at how straight all the lines are. I assume that's because Mr Guilford was rich enough to afford to have it made very well in the first place and then maintained properly afterward (and obviously everyone whose hands the house has passed to since him have also been able to put in the money and work to maintain it, which is VERY fortunate). Would love to see more like this.
P.S. When you first started including your face in the corner of the screen, you asked viewers for feedback. Now that I've seen some videos the new way, I'd say it doesn't work well for me. I find it distracting and unnecessary for this sort of video. Sorry, but since you asked :) I do appreciate these videos though, thank you!
So beautiful. If this house could talk.
I grew up in Connecticut, and my whole family lives there. I love the historic homes. Love this channel. Thanks for showing the old homes. ❤
I did as well... in Fairfield
white washing the walls was something that was sometimes done. I believe it not only helped reflect more candle light but the lime in it helped make more pest resistance.
Lime, as in crushed lime stone, I believe
I love stone houses. I really love the wide plank flooring. 😍
Wow, seems like a lot of fireplaces. Very charming home.
I love this house! I agree with you about those huge logs in that one fireplace. I would switch them out for smaller logs. Your channel is one of my favorite channels in here. Thank you so very much for sharing these beautiful homes with us! I would happily live in any of the homes you've shared.
Spectacular home!! Are you a Navy Veteran? If so Thank You for your service!
I am a Navy vet. I was in from 2000-2011.
@@oldNEhouses4947Thank you for your service 🇺🇸
thanks for the video
That piece of furniture is called a Server. Usually has the silverware in it. Possibly dishes.
Awesome. Thanks.
5:10 I’d like to point out the width of the wall boards. The wall looks to be about 10’ long yet only 7 boards were needed to cover it. The last one the right looks around 24” wide. This pine came from old growth forest which was covering the much of the continent in the seventeenth century.
Perhaps they did a "white washing" of the walls? But probably not originally, maybe sometime later?? I like it because it brightens/freshens up the room a bit. Stone walled-houses are my favorite, though, and this one is a beauty!
This is my favorite, of all the houses you have toured, because of its age, condition, and it is stone. I also like the combination of English furniture and early (primitive) American furniture. My guess is that is how it would have been for Henry Whitfield's home in the 1600s. I often wonder what life must have been like for them. My earliest ancestors (in America) were in the New Haven/Old Saybrook area in the late 1600s.
Those thick stone walls and steep pitch roof kept this home solid for centuries. I wonder if restoration was done, or if it had continuous occupation as a home until 1899. Years of neglect and leaky roofs can harm any building that stands empty. I agree that the furnishings definitely add to the feel of it being very, very old. Always love to see our oldest U.S. (yes, I know, not 'the states yet') houses. Though California did have houses, churches, and military buildings (when we were a colony of Spain) dating back this far, the majority were adobe (un-fired mud/clay) brick, which did not stand the test of time. This strong stone house is a gem.
Amazing, thanks for sharing! Worth taking a weekender in the spring to take a tour!
Frist open floor plan. Love it.
Masons were incredibly respected and with good reason. The outside of the fireplaces is a masterpiece.
That is a tremendous amount of stone. I find the craftmanship astounding, I say for 1639. 400 years later, I would be proud to live in that house. I have built cookie cutter houses, you follow the prints, whack it out, go on to the next. I really wonder if workmen felt any different about their work then.
Masons were incredibly well respected...almost worshiped.
optional window cavities? next to the fireplace. Wonder if it was a workshop, large clock is reminiscent. It feels so secure, a world of it's own but not claustrophobic. Totally livable. Stone collects heat in winter and keeps it cool summers.
Sometimes, they stored quilts and blankets near the fireplace to keep them warm.
That's fantastic
Stayed at an inn up North of Madison,Wisconsin which had a great room and fireplace of that size. They were burning that size of logs in it to heat the room. The room was used for dinning and socializing.
Thanks for the tour. I also like that we can see you during the video 😊
A simply gorgeous place !
Low ceilings were too keep the heat in as much as possible.
2 feet thick stone. wow! Must feel like a cave inside. Cool in summer, but cold and hard to heat in winter I bet.
I’d imagine they did lime wash the interiors white back when the house was built. The white would help reflect what little light there was in the home. Windows and doors were smaller to keep heat in. Also, lime wash helped keep pests out of the home. They did that even in medieval times. Very cool house. Thanks for sharing! Those huge fireplaces are my favorite feature of old homes like this.
Gorgeous house. Gayle
THE BEST HOUSE YET !!!
I bet the square footage of the house is less than what you might expect considering how thick the walls are.
Beautiful! Thank You for the tour. My ancestors Thomas and Mary Barnes came to Ct in 1630. from Barking, England. Mary was hanged as a witch in 1662.
I have done a good amount of research/studying the history of Christianity, the history of the Roman “church,” the Protestant Reformation, etc…. I believe we have been taught a bit of twisted history regarding New England, the Puritans, the “pilgrims” who came to America. They were fleeing the Roman Catholic inquisitions. I suspect that those “witches” (as we are taught today) were suspected of being catholic and/or bringing pagan/Babylonian rituals or beliefs into the settlement. Few people know that before the 1776 Revolutionary War, Catholic “masses” were forbidden/against the law. The pagan “Christ-mass” festival was against the law. Prior to 1776, 12 of the 13 colonies were Protestant. Only the colony called “Mary-land” was catholic. The infiltration of Jesuits and catholics into Protestant New England was a constant threat to Christianity and breaking away from the Roman “church.”
Wow, it looks good as new.
I live in Litchfield county and grew up in a 1770 house. im currently restoring an 1810 colonial. love your vids
I love stone houses, and this one is amazing. I hope to see it in person someday.
Structurally, it looks great.
Love the old stone houses of New England. This one is a jewel. The attic is beautiful. I was trying to imagine how they got the furniture and display cases up into the attic via the small stairways!
I really enjoy this YT channel since becoming a subscriber, oh, maybe a couple months ago. Good content, quality of production and presentation of these charming and historic old New England dwellings. Cheers.
PS: Go Navy!
Attics, although just basic and crude, held the history of the family. Old trunks full of memories and old furniture, keepsakes, etc. A sense of generational occupants.
I know they used to white wash the inside to make the interior brighter.
Amazing ty
I believe the lime-washed walls were common and aided in reflecting lighting.
My 11th great uncle home and inn was built around 1740 or so in Smithtown Long Island the grandness of these old homes and they still live on. Thank you for sharing
It was a stop over for George Washington and a meeting place for the local spy ring to gather information
Seeing as stone is our Great Natural Resource but almost never used for building because of a lack of ingredients for mortar, does anyone know what was used for this house?
We live in Killingworth just two towns from Guilford. Have been to that old house and it is really amazing to walk through. Interesting video and you have a new sub! 👍👍
That chimney is massive!
I watched a video about Tudor kitchens , saying they were painted white , it helped to lighten up the room to see better.
I'm sure the walls would have been whitewashed originally, it would be dark if they weren't plus it gives a clean bright appearance
When I visited, twenty years ago, there was a writing desk sitting on a chest, that had belonged to my ancestor, c.1600’s. Don’t see it here. 🤔 This was the fortress in town.
Beautiful house! I would love to live in it. At 6:30 I believe the cavities in the walls above the fireplace may have been used to warm items since at least one is so close to the fireplace. In masonry heater type stoves there are often cavities right by the chimney or in the back of the fireplace if it is in the middle of the house which are used for actual baking and warming food. Perhaps this is what those are for. If not, it was probably built that way so the family cat had a nice warm place to sleep too. What a dream house for a cat! Big windowsills to stretch out in...
I think the whitewashed walls are probably accurate since the house is so well to do and built with fine materials. It would be much more livable in the winter with minimal lighting. Nice video.
@8:12 I love the width of the floor planks. Don't see them like that too often.
I am tempted to think the white walls were originally a limewash, a technique common during colonial times & in the U K. on stone to prevent mold & mildew.
That looks like a lime wash on the walls which protects the stone from moisture.
Would like to have seen the homes kitchen although I know the big fireplace was used it really didn't have the usual hardware for cooking in it.
boxes next to fireplace are for heat draw for better heat circulation in the room
Thanks Andrew...Another beautiful old house 🏠 I especially love the Attic room! The 15th & 30th/31st are my favourite days of the month! 😊
It’s huge for being the oldest in state
Yes, the walls would have been whitewashed, which is lime (mineral) paint. It serves to reflect low light, like candle light. Whitewash is a fire retardant, helps to prevent mold and helps to prevent disease
The walls would definitely have been "painted". It was probably a lime (mineral, not color) plaster coating. Castles also had lime plaster coating, even on the outside, as opposed to what we are used to seeing which is plain stone.
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Kas. The Cupboard on the left was called a Kas by the Dutch and some of the English too.
Was that a giant clock in the attic? If yes, why?
It is just another display piece in the museum.
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CAN YOU DO MORE OF THESE IN CONNECTICUT PLEASE? ALSO, I WANT TO OWN AND LIVE IN ONE OF THESE HISTORIC HOMES. WOULD YOU PLEASE DO VIDEOS ON OLD HISTORIC HOMES THAT ARE CURRENTLY UP FOR SALE? SO THAT WE CAN LEARN THE PROS AND CONS TO BUYING AND LIVING IN ONE OF THESE 200 TO 400 YEAR OLD HOUSES? THE COSTS, THE PROBLEMS AND UPKEEP, WHERE TO BUY TIME PERIOD APPROPRIATE FURNISHINGS AND FURNITURE, ETC.? THANK YOU, THAT WOULD BE MOST HELPFUL AS WELL AS QUITE INTERESTING. LASTLY, I'VE TRIED TO LOOK UP INFORMATION ON REV. WHITFIELD...BIO, ETC., BUT I COULDN'T FIND ANYTHING ON HIM. I AM A FORMER CATHOLIC SEMINARIAN AND WANTED TO LEARN MORE ABOUT HIM AND HIS LIFE, LEGACY, AND MINISTRY, ETC. WHY WAS HE SO FAMOUS? AND WAS HE RICH? WHY DID THE TOWNS PEOPLE BUILD HIM SUCH A LAVISH AND STURDY, EXPENSIVE HOME?? HE MUST HAVE DONE SOMETHING TO DESERVE IT.
So fascinating to watch! Is the all furniture accurate to that time period?
Not all the furniture is accurate to early to mid 17th century but some is. Other pieces are more from the 18th century.
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Do you sell sweaters in a shop?
Do you sell them here?
I do not sell any merchandise.
Interior walls would indeed have been white. They wouldn't have been painted white but white -washed with slaked lime. The white walls would have aided with the reflecting of available light back before electric light and even burning of candles would have been an expensive thing. Ambient light from outside could be used well into the evening in summer to continue to work or read before one had to resort to artificial light. I've read by walls just like this and once your eyes adjust you can really do whatever is necessary long after the light begins to wane outside.
Small bit was built first? Then large bit? Big fireplace is for big logs. White wash was normal for bugs, i think.
Looks Similar to the Architecture of the Homes in Old Quebec City.