Dear Susan--After being offline for a couple of days and returning to
what seems like a million silly and/or sickening list posts, it was
such a pleasure to find this lovely poem of yours! It also made me
wonder if our respective New England ancestors ever worked together.
The Ward Construction Company of Kennebunkport, Maine, "collaborated"
with architects from Boston to Portland--and on some extremely odd
houses, too. Do you know the weirdly Italianate Bibber Funeral Home
or the so-called "wedding cake house" in Kennebunkport? Both were
WardCo projects, and the former is the former Ward "homeplace" in
fact. Be nice to think our ancestors maybe turned a dollar and a
dowell together from time to time. But thanks in any case for this
wonderful poem, which reads in a sort of slippery newell post way
to my mind! --Candice
At 09:55 AM 7/8/00 -0500, you wrote:
>Have been wanting to contribute to the architecture enterprise, as I think
>a lot about it; my brother is an architect in Chicago and my parents --
>designers not architects -- did the initial designs for two of the houses
>we grew up in. For another project, I ended up finally reading a scrapbook
>my great-great grandfather kept mid-19th century this week; he was an
>architect in New Hampshire and then Boston, settling in Hyde Park, where my
>grandmother was born to his daughter. So this contribution seemed given --
>nonetheless --
>
>Foster & Harding Architects
>Architectural Drawings
>
>— a fragment of the scaffolding —
>
>in every variety of style, neatly and promptly executed, for
>
>— writ in the codons, George Mulford Harding to —
>
>Villas, Cottages, Farm Buildings, Churches,
>
>— Daniel Harding Wheeler, Boston to —
>
>or Public Edifices of every kind, including
>
>— Chicago, brawn of the —
>
>Plans, Elevations, Sections and Detail Drawings
>
>— brick & mortar, adenine and guanine —
>
>together with Specifications, Estimates, Contracts, and such
>superintendence as may be necessary for the execution of same.
>
>— via Helen Harding Loveland, via May Loveland Wheeler —
>
>Orders from abroad respectfully solicited.
>
>— Ray Barton Wheeler: cedar house on stilts,
>the stilts a curve, the helix unzipped, mid-
>replication —
>
>N.B. — F. & H. will attend to surveying of
>
>— the steel beam, the light seam —
>
>Painting, Plastering, & c, when desired.
>
>— boat house wavering on the north avenue promontory
>ladder up —
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