Large - Geo - Connecticut - Guilford - Whitefield
GUSN-195112
An interior view looking north of the north front chamber on the second floor of the Henry Whitfield House, now the Henry Whitfield State Museum, in Guilford, Connecticut, after the restoration directed by architect John Frederick Kelly in the 1930s. The Puritan leader Henry Whitfield built the stone house in 1639. A fireplace occupies an off-cneter position of the end wall. The floor is constructed with wide boards. The low ceiling is supported by massive exposed beams.
interior walls
bedrooms
granite (rock)
restoration (process)
front (positional attribute)
single-family dwellings
American Colonial
interior views
sleeping and reclining furniture
black-and-white prints (photographs)
photographs
DigitalID 000270
AccessID 430
Other identifier HNEDID-000270
1 photograph
PC001
General photographic collection
PC001.02.01.USCT.0770.0050.007
1937
Guilford (New Haven county, Connecticut)
black-and-white prints (photographs)
photographs
Whitfield, Henry, 1597-1660?
Kelly, J. Frederick (John Frederick), 1888-1947
Henry Whitfield State Museum (Conn.)
floors, wooden
stone houses
Architectural photography
Item
Large - Geo - Connecticut - Guilford - Whitefield
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