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Snug Gables
Snug Gables is a historic house built for Thomas Dreier by Frank Chouteau Brown in Winchester, MA. It was built in 1920 and named after Dreier's wife, Blanche "Snug" Drier. Dreier ran the "Thomas Dreier Service" out of a print shop in the basement, which distributed advertising publications and motivational short stories to area business leaders. After Brown completed a project in 1923 to improve the grounds, it was featured in the August 1923 US edition of what was then known as Country Life Magazine ''Country Life'' is a British weekly perfect-bound glossy magazine that is published by Future plc. It was based in London at 110 Southwark Street until March 2016, when it became based in Farnborough, Hampshire. History ''Country Life'' .... The house was also featured in advertisements for La Touraine coffee in newspapers throughout New England and New York. One of these was titled "Where Thomas Dreier Lives and Works," describing the household's reputation for hospit ...
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Thomas Dreier
Thomas Dreier (May 5, 1884 – September 4, 1976) was an American editor, writer, advertising executive, and business theorist. The Thomas Dreier Reading Room at Peter H. Armacost Library, Eckerd College is named in his honor. He was born in Durand, Wisconsin in and edited and published his own short-lived paper, ''The Menomonie Badger'', in Menomonie in 1903 and 1904. He subsequently moved to the Boston area. He built the Frank Chouteau Brown-designed " Snug Gables" in Winchester, Massachusetts, where he lived from 1920 to 1933, and later settled in New Hampshire on a farm named "Sunny Meadows" in Melvin Village, Tuftonborough. In 1935 he and his first wife, Blanche Nowell Dreier, moved to St. Petersburg, Florida. In Florida Thomas served as chairman of the State Library Board and was a leader in rebuilding the St. Petersburg Public Library. Blanche died in 1960 and in 1961 he married Mary Baker. He died on at his home in . He was the first editor of the ''New Hampsh ...
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Frank Chouteau Brown
Frank Chouteau Brown (1876–1947) was an American architect, born in Minneapolis, Minnesota, and educated at the Minneapolis School of Fine Arts, the Boston Art Club and in Europe. In 1902, he began practice in Boston and from 1907 to 1919, was editor of the ''Architectural Review'' periodical. In 1916, he became a member of the faculty of Boston University Boston University (BU) is a private research university in Boston, Massachusetts. The university is nonsectarian, but has a historical affiliation with the United Methodist Church. It was founded in 1839 by Methodists with its original campu ... and in 1919, head of the Department of Art and Architecture. He was the architectural designer of the 1933 renovation of the Dillaway–Thomas House in Roxbury, Massachusetts. Selected bibliography * * * * References External links * * * Boston University faculty Architects from Minneapolis Architects from Boston 20th-century American architects 1876 b ...
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Country Life In America
''Country Life in America'' was an American shelter magazine, first published in November 1901 as an illustrated monthly by Doubleday, Page & Company. Henry H. Saylor was the initial managing editor, and Robert M. McBride started his career at this publication. While its initial readership target was the rural dweller, it soon changed its focus to people looking for ideas on country living. In 1917, the name changed to ''The New Country Life'', then ''Country Life'', and the magazine ended production in 1942. References External links ''Country Life in America''at the HathiTrust ''The New Country Life''(1917-1918) at the HathiTrust ''Country Life in the War''(1918) at the HathiTrust ''Country Life''(1919-1937) at the HathiTrust HathiTrust Digital Library is a large-scale collaborative repository of digital content from research libraries including content digitized via Google Books and the Internet Archive digitization initiatives, as well as content digitized locally ... ...
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Historic New England
Historic New England, previously known as the Society for the Preservation of New England Antiquities (SPNEA), is a charitable, non-profit, historic preservation organization headquartered in Boston, Massachusetts. It is focused on New England and is the oldest and largest regional preservation organization in the United States. Historic New England owns and operates historic site museums and study properties throughout all of the New England states except Vermont, and serves more than 198,000 visitors and program participants each year. Approximately 48,000 visitors participate in school and youth programs focused on New England heritage. Historic New England is a museum of cultural history that collects and preserves buildings, landscapes, and objects dating from the seventeenth century to the present and uses them to keep history alive and to help people develop a deeper understanding and enjoyment of New England life and appreciation for its preservation. History William ...
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Houses Completed In 1920
A house is a single-unit residential building. It may range in complexity from a rudimentary hut to a complex structure of wood, masonry, concrete or other material, outfitted with plumbing, electrical, and heating, ventilation, and air conditioning systems.Schoenauer, Norbert (2000). ''6,000 Years of Housing'' (rev. ed.) (New York: W.W. Norton & Company). Houses use a range of different roofing systems to keep precipitation such as rain from getting into the dwelling space. Houses may have doors or locks to secure the dwelling space and protect its inhabitants and contents from burglars or other trespassers. Most conventional modern houses in Western cultures will contain one or more bedrooms and bathrooms, a kitchen or cooking area, and a living room. A house may have a separate dining room, or the eating area may be integrated into another room. Some large houses in North America have a recreation room. In traditional agriculture-oriented societies, domestic animals such as ...
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