Word: gambrel
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...building of Hastings Hall will eventually make it necessary to tear down one of the oldes landmarks in Cambridge, known as the Watson House. This house was built in the year 1791 by John Nutting, and is a two-story wooden structure with a gambrel roof, large chimneys and deep fire-places, and stands today in nearly the same conditin as when constructed. The framing is of oak and the heavy beams project into the rooms nearly three inches. The rooms are low studded and are surrounded by an oak wainscotting three feet high. The hallway is large and square...
...great blessing to be born surrounded by a natural horizon. The Old Gambrel-roofed House could not boast an unbroken ring of natural objects encircling it. Northerly it looked upon its own outbuildings and some unpretending two-story house which had been its neighbors for a century or more. To the south of it the square brick dormitories and the befriend hall of the university helped to shut out the distant view. But the west windows gave a broad outlook across the common, beyond which the historical "Washington elm" and two companions in line with it spread their leaves...
...that the old adage : "It is an ill wind" etc., holds true. The antiquaries much deplore the breaking up of the ancient dwelling with its many historic associations, and even the thoughtless student as he passes the site now vacant cannot but have a little regret that the gambrel roof and the yellow and white house has gone forever. When the old house was destroyed much of the wood was sold to relic hunters to be made into souvenirs, and several complete parts, such as doors and wainscotings, were bought by eager purchasers to serve the same purposes in their...