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A historic saltbox house in Litchfield, Connecticut. The saltbox style is a Colonial design that originated in New England in around 1650, its name deriving to the styles similarity to the salt boxes that often were used in 17th and 18th century kitchens. They are characterized by a short roof in the front and an asymmetrically long roof in the back.

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Title
Litchfield.: Historic Saltbox House
Creator
Smolski, Chester photographer 1926-2008
Date
1970-10-01
Other Identifiers
Local: MSS-0041-BO2-SB05-4938
Subject (Topic)
Historic buildings
Keyword
housing ; land use ; historic buildings ; historic ; architecture ; American ; colonial cities ; colonial architecture ; saltbox
Geographic Coverage
Connecticut
Type
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Finding Aid
Finding Aid on RIAMCO to Chester E. Smolski photographic slides and publications
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Bibliography: "The Salt-Box House." The New York Times, 22 Dec 1900, www.nytimes.com. Accessed 14 Dec 2016. "Saltbox Houses in the Historic American Buildings Survey." The Library of Congress, 2014, www.loc.gov/rr/print/list/175_sal1.html. Accessed 14 Dec 2016.
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This object from the Chester E. Smolski photographic slides and publications, housed by the Rhode Island College Special Collections, and any of its digital surrogates are the intellectual property of Rhode Island College. This digital object is protected by copyright and/or related rights. The digital material presented here is licensed with a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License. This content can be used, shared, or adapted for educational and scholarly purposes. For permissions to use this item please contact digitalcollections@ric.edu. All uses must include appropriate attribution.
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