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Ephraim Hawley House, the Glossary

The Ephraim Hawley House is a privately owned Colonial American wooden post-and-beam timber-frame saltbox house situated on the Farm Highway, Route 108, on the south side of Mischa Hill, in Nichols, a village located within the town of Trumbull, Connecticut, the U.S. It was expanded to its present shape by three additions.^[1]

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Connecticut Colony
Houses completed in 1683
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Saltbox architecture in Connecticut

Antique

An antique is an item perceived as having value because of its aesthetic or historical significance, and often defined as at least 100 years old (or some other limit), although the term is often used loosely to describe any object that is old.

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Association for Preservation Technology International

The Association for Preservation Technology International (APT) is a not-for-profit, multidisciplinary, membership organization dedicated to promoting the best technology for conserving and preserving historic structures and their settings.

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Basement

A basement or cellar is one or more floors of a building that are completely or partly below the ground floor.

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Beehive oven

A beehive oven is a type of oven in use since the Middle Ages in Europe.

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Boston Post Road

The Boston Post Road was a system of mail-delivery routes between New York City and Boston, Massachusetts, that evolved into one of the first major highways in the United States.

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Bressummer

A bressummer, breastsummer, summer beam (somier, sommier, sommer, somer, cross-somer, summer, summier, summer-tree, or dorman, dormant tree) is a load-bearing beam in a timber-framed building.

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Buttery (room)

A buttery was originally a large cellar room under a monastery, in which food and drink were stored for the provisioning of strangers and passing guests.

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Cape Cod (house)

A Cape Cod house is a low, broad, single or double-story frame building with a moderately-steep-pitched gabled roof, a large central chimney, and very little ornamentation.

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Casement window

A casement window is a window that is attached to its frame by one or more hinges at the side.

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Ceiling

A ceiling is an overhead interior roof that covers the upper limits of a room.

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Chamfer

A chamfer is a transitional edge between two faces of an object.

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Clapboard

Clapboard, also called bevel siding, lap siding, and weatherboard, with regional variation in the definition of those terms, is wooden siding of a building in the form of horizontal boards, often overlapping.

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Collar beam

A collar beam or collar is a horizontal member between two rafters and is very common in domestic roof construction.

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Colonial history of the United States

The colonial history of the United States covers the period of European colonization of North America from the early 16th century until the incorporation of the Thirteen Colonies into the United States after the Revolutionary War.

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Colonial Revival architecture

The Colonial Revival architectural style seeks to revive elements of American colonial architecture.

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Connecticut Colony

The Connecticut Colony or Colony of Connecticut, originally known as the Connecticut River Colony or simply the River Colony, was an English colony in New England which later became the state of Connecticut.

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Connecticut Route 108

Route 108 in the U.S. state of Connecticut, locally called Nichols Avenue and Huntington Turnpike, is a two-lane state highway that runs northerly from US 1, Boston Post Road in Stratford, through Trumbull, to Route 110 in downtown Shelton.

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Connecticut Route 32

Route 32 is a primary north–south state highway in the U.S. state of Connecticut, beginning in New London and continuing via Willimantic to the Massachusetts state line, where it continues as Route 32 in that state.

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Farmer

A farmer is a person engaged in agriculture, raising living organisms for food or raw materials.

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Federal Writers' Project

The Federal Writers' Project (FWP) was a federal government project in the United States created to provide jobs for out-of-work writers and to develop a history and overview of the United States, by state, cities and other jurisdictions.

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Flooring

Flooring is the general term for a permanent covering of a floor, or for the work of installing such a floor covering.

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Flue

A flue is a duct, pipe, or opening in a chimney for conveying exhaust gases from a fireplace, furnace, water heater, boiler, or generator to the outdoors.

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Granite

Granite is a coarse-grained (phaneritic) intrusive igneous rock composed mostly of quartz, alkali feldspar, and plagioclase.

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Great Depression

The Great Depression (19291939) was a severe global economic downturn that affected many countries across the world.

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Hearth

A hearth is the place in a home where a fire is or was traditionally kept for home heating and for cooking, usually constituted by at least a horizontal hearthstone and often enclosed to varying degrees by any combination of reredos (a low, partial wall behind a hearth), fireplace, oven, smoke hood, or chimney.

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Highway

A highway is any public or private road or other public way on land.

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History of Trumbull, Connecticut

Trumbull, a town in Fairfield County, Connecticut, in the New England region of the United States, was originally home to the Golden Hill Paugussett Indian Nation, and was colonized by the English during the Great Migration of the 1630s as a part of the coastal settlement of Stratford.

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Jamb

A jamb, in architecture, is the side-post or lining of a doorway or other aperture.

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Joist

A joist is a horizontal structural member used in framing to span an open space, often between beams that subsequently transfer loads to vertical members.

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King's Highway (Charleston to Boston)

The King's Highway was a roughly road laid out from 1650 to 1735 in the American colonies.

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Kitchen

A kitchen is a room or part of a room used for cooking and food preparation in a dwelling or in a commercial establishment.

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Lintel

A lintel or lintol is a type of beam (a horizontal structural element) that spans openings such as portals, doors, windows and fireplaces.

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List of governors of Connecticut

The governor of Connecticut is the head of government of Connecticut, and the commander-in-chief of the state's military forces.

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List of highways numbered 1

The following highways are numbered 1.

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List of slave owners

The following is a list of notable people who owned other people as slaves, where there is a consensus of historical evidence of slave ownership, in alphabetical order by last name.

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List of the oldest buildings in Connecticut

This article lists the oldest buildings in the state of Connecticut, United States of America.

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Loft

A loft is a building's upper storey or elevated area in a room directly under the roof (American usage), or just an attic: a storage space under the roof usually accessed by a ladder (primarily British usage).

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Merritt Parkway

The Merritt Parkway (also known locally as "The Merritt") is a controlled-access parkway in Fairfield County, Connecticut, with a small section at the northern end in New Haven County.

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Mortise and tenon

A mortise and tenon (occasionally mortice and tenon) joint connects two pieces of wood or other material.

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Nichols Farms Historic District

Nichols Farms is a historic area within the town of Trumbull, Connecticut.

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Nichols, Connecticut

Nichols, a historic village in southeastern Trumbull in Fairfield County, Connecticut, is named after the family who maintained a large farm in its center for almost 300 years.

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Norwich, Connecticut

Norwich (also called "The Rose of New England") is a city in New London County, Connecticut, United States.

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Panelling

Panelling (or paneling in the United States) is a millwork wall covering constructed from rigid or semi-rigid components.

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Pantry

A pantry is a room or cupboard where beverages, food, (sometimes) dishes, household cleaning products, linens or provisions are stored within a home or office.

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Parlour

A parlour (or parlor) is a reception room or public space.

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Plaster

Plaster is a building material used for the protective or decorative coating of walls and ceilings and for moulding and casting decorative elements.

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Post and lintel

Post and lintel (also called prop and lintel, a trabeated system, or a trilithic system) is a building system where strong horizontal elements are held up by strong vertical elements with large spaces between them.

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Quarter sawing

Quarter sawing or quartersawing is a woodworking process that produces quarter-sawn or quarter-cut boards in the rip cutting of logs into lumber.

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Quercus subg. Quercus

Quercus subgenus Quercus is one of the two subgenera into which the genus Quercus was divided in a 2017 classification (the other being subgenus ''Cerris'').

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Rafter

A rafter is one of a series of sloped structural members such as steel beams that extend from the ridge or hip to the wall plate, downslope perimeter or eave, and that are designed to support the roof shingles, roof deck, roof covering and its associated loads.

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Robert Hawley

Robert Hawley (1729–1799), Captain, raised provisions for the Continental Army soldiers and fought in the American Revolutionary War. Ephraim Hawley House and Robert Hawley are people from colonial Connecticut.

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Rod (unit)

The rod, perch, or pole (sometimes also lug) is a surveyor's tool and unit of length of various historical definitions.

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Saltbox house

A saltbox house is a gable-roofed residential structure that is typically two stories in the front and one in the rear.

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Sash window

A sash window or hung sash window is made of one or more movable panels, or "sashes".

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Schaghticoke people

The Schaghticoke are a Native American tribe of the Eastern Woodlands who historically consisted of Mahican, Potatuck, Weantinock, Tunxis, Podunk, and their descendants, peoples indigenous to what is now New York, Connecticut, and Massachusetts.

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Siding (construction)

Siding or wall cladding is the protective material attached to the exterior side of a wall of a house or other building.

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Stratford, Connecticut

Stratford is a town in Fairfield County, Connecticut, United States.

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Thomas Hawley House

The Thomas Hawley House at 514 Purdy Hill Road in Monroe, Connecticut, is a historic Colonial American wooden post-and-beam saltbox farm house built in 1730.

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Thomas Welles

Thomas Welles (14 January 1660) is the only person in Connecticut's history to hold all four top offices: governor, deputy governor, treasurer, and secretary.

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Timber framing

Timber framing and "post-and-beam" construction are traditional methods of building with heavy timbers, creating structures using squared-off and carefully fitted and joined timbers with joints secured by large wooden pegs.

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Township (United States)

A township in some states of the United States is a small geographic area.

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Truman Bradley (Native American)

Truman Bradley or Truman Mauwee (c. 1826–1900) was a Schaghticoke Native American who lived in the village of Nichols in Trumbull, Connecticut.

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Trumbull, Connecticut

Trumbull is a town located in Fairfield County, Connecticut, United States.

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William Richard Cutter

William Richard Cutter (August 17, 1847 – June 6, 1918) was an American historian, librarian, genealogist, and writer.

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Works Progress Administration

The Works Progress Administration (WPA; renamed in 1939 as the Work Projects Administration) was an American New Deal agency that employed millions of jobseekers (mostly men who were not formally educated) to carry out public works projects, including the construction of public buildings and roads.

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Yale School of Art

The Yale School of Art is the art school of Yale University.

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Zachariah Curtiss House

The Zachariah Curtiss House is located at 2950 Nichols Avenue on the east side of the Farm Highway or Route 108 on the south side of Mischa Hill, in the village of Nichols in Trumbull, Connecticut in New England. Ephraim Hawley House and Zachariah Curtiss House are Connecticut Colony and people from colonial Connecticut.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ephraim_Hawley_House

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Ephraim Hawley House, the Glossary

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See also

Connecticut Colony

Houses completed in 1683

Houses completed in 1690

Saltbox architecture in Connecticut

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