Newburyport, Massachusetts
A Georgian house of about 1775, remodeled around 1869, 321 High Street was raised when this end of High Street still belonged to the town of Newbury.
The land was part of the Atkinson family's holdings, a family that settled Newbury in the 1630s. In 1793 John Atkinson, a hatter, sold it to Farnum How, a Newbury blacksmith. Through the 1800s the house was two households, and on this side came a chaise and carriage builder, then the Morse family until 1914.
The twentieth century brought the Fowlers, the Foleys and the Gallants, who kept the house from 1956 to 1998. Its paired front doorways, with their arched moldings, come from the Victorian remodeling.
The house and its grounds, then and now, through the turning of the seasons.
As it has greeted High Street since the eighteenth century.
Where callers have been received, in every season.
Laid stone, set for long evenings out of doors.
A shaded passage beneath the Japanese maple.
Lawn, old trees and fresh beds, kept in the manner of the old High Street houses.
Where generations have played their games, season upon season.
Fine details, set by hand.
Parades, rainbows and the life of the street, seen from the front step.
