[MassHistPres] seam faced granite

[Dennis De Witt]

Yes, of course, re Longy!  Waddy Longfellow et al is another obvious link back to HHR’s early ‘80s Stony Brook gatehouse as perhaps the source.  

And yes re Weymouth, there are adverts in the Brickbuilder — and Quincy and apparently also some place in Plymouth, altho I can’t immediately imagine where.

Thanks

Dennis

> On Jun 6, 2023, at 1:39 PM, Sullivan, Charles M. <csullivan at cambridgema.gov> wrote:
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> One early Cambridge example is the Edwin Abbott house at 1 Follen Street (now the Longy School of Music (1888, Longfellow Alden & Harlow), with brownstone trim. A later one is the parish house of the First Parish in Cambridge (1901, William P. Richards, architect). In the latter case the granite was reported as having been quarried in Weymouth. The material was used most recently (that I know of) for a church on Alewife Brook Parkway in 1934, when it was sourced from Quincy.
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> Subject: [MassHistPres] seam faced granite
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> All
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> I have been digging a little into the use of seam faced granite — example below.   
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> I wonder if Cram may have first popularized it as a contrasty somewhat rustic material, beginning with All Sts Ashmont in 1891 — altho do I find Henry Vaughan using it at St. Mary’s Upham’s Corner in ’88 but with non-contrasting brownstone trim.  
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> Am I missing earlier examples?
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> It seems to have been a specifically Boston area quarried material and it strikes me as a Boston Arts & Crafts-ish example of using “reject” material, somewhat like the adoption of over-fired klinker a.k.a “bench” brick, but a tad earlier.
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> Dennis De Witt
> Metropolitan Waterworks Museum
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