Trust Tour: Abel and Mary Nicholson House with Ralph Harvard
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- Опубліковано 8 жов 2024
- The Decorative Arts Trust had the joy of visiting the Abel and Mary Nicholson House on November 10, 2020, for another Trust Tour. The one and only Ralph Harvard led us on an exciting exploration of this amazing house.
Among the most pristine examples of early Anglo-American building, the dwelling is also the most intact surviving patterned-brick structure in the country, providing a nearly complete dictionary of Baroque brickwork and masonry techniques. Although a good number of houses survive from the 18th century, the Nicholson House is one of the few that dates from the first quarter and remains in an evocative, untouched state.
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Magnificent!
It's a beautiful home and needs restoring.
I walked out to that house twice in 2013. But I never knew about the initialed bricks. That's so cool. I'm trying to figure out Ralph Harvard's accent. I don't think I've ever heard anyone say "house" the way he does. The only patterned brick house I've been inside of is the Somers Mansion in Somers Point, which is from sometime in the 1720s. They don't know exactly. It was great to see the inside of this one. Thanks for uploading this video, and thanks for the work you do.
yes, his Virginian accent is something else
❤such a beautiful house
As a descendant of Abel's brother Joseph I discovered and toured this house around 2005. Thank you for your devotion to this house's preservation. Hope to bring my grandkids this summer and show them where and how their ancestor's lived among the greenheads and mosquitos
Thank you well done my family on my mother side is all the way back to that house I’ve been in the house thanks to a tour years ago
Thank you so much for this very informative tour. I would love to visit this beautiful house one day.
Saw the house and new immediately it was in southern New Jersey. There are many old houses like this built. Was so sad they destroyed a brick home in the middle of the night to make way for a 295 interchange.. that house had the same distinctive brick work.
Thank you Ralph!!
A beautiful example of an 18th century patterned brick house!
I've personally researched and photographed many patterned brick houses in Salem, Cumberland & Burlington Counties.
Nicely done documentary!
Thanks Ralph for your hard work and dedication
Lightning was just one of the reasons that trees were kept at a distance from the houses in the eighteenth-century. I'm glad to see that there wasn't more damage.
Just seeing this video 2 years after it was posted. Has anything been done with the house? Is Ralph still in charge of its preservation?? I'm fascinated!!!
Thank you for your interest! Ralph Harvard is still working on the Nicholson House. You can read more at www.salemoldhousefoundation.org/About_Abel_Nicholson.html.
@@TheDecorativeArtsTrust Thank you!!!!
It is wonderful to see it this way,we forget how people really lived in these old spaces! Don’t make her tooo pretty,there’s beauty in her age and decline.
Thanks for sharing this beautiful house. I grew up in South Jersey, which is, as you said, a part of the state that no one knows. The architecture is often stunning and the history is fascinating. It's a quiet part of the state but well worth visiting.
Thank you for all of the work you're doing on this house and for sharing this tour with everyone. Magnificent brick work. Having physical reminders of those who preceded us is important to our collective memory and understanding of who we are. I have a thought on the hearts over the door. You suggested that the room might have served as an informal Quaker meeting house. House meetings are still common among Quakers. They certainly were in early Quaker life. At the core of Quaker belief is that there is that of God within each of us and we can understand and be aware of that presence on our own and in the midst of community without formal clergy. As people with strong Christian backgrounds, they would also have had in their hearts that very basic notion, "where charity and love are, there God is." So that could possibly be what the hearts are about. But it could be something else ... why are hearts in Pennsylvania Dutch iconography?
For the interior work what do you think about a clearcoat if possible to try to preserve it any other biggest problem is the temperature changes through the seasons to try to preserve it even longer
Thank you so much, this was very interesting! I live just around the corner and did have an opportunity, many years ago, to visit the house during a house tour, but you were able to fill in so many gaps.