" Brian is one of the -- properties and came right yes it is it's house dates to seventeenth century it's a rare thing in Cambridge and -- frost -- house -- can almost -- from the seventeenth century it's huge it's it's not quite -- now the -- house obviously had various -- in the saltbox -- right yes and that -- that long -- to -- that you find a -- seventeenth and early eighteenth century New England houses and in salt was actually sold in boxes that looks like that right this thing was called a -- funny names for all right. Now tell us about this house how was -- built this house is built into haves the have that faces us with the earliest he still the 1690s -- house one family but when they had two generations. They're married and having children don't the second half but seventeen tenths of two and fifteen. And live side by side -- after -- the land around cure so that's where you end up with this central chimney how does that affect the front facade of the house. The thought was extent it's that it appears nearly to be symmetrical well it's mostly nineteenth century renovation affront. But in the end here's a little bit of seventeenth century work in this overhanging gable. Which is a -- found throughout New England a house of this period. I imagine they had. Scores of acres around here yes this was part of reform that extended back and -- all directions. And actually but it just around the corner there's a house designed by the architect to design your house on and what might have been an orchard at one point Hartland Richardson -- just look at it. This is a house that states from 1890s. What would you call the -- so it's it's mostly colonial revival but there are lots of illness -- other things I think that the color. At a high hip roofs the balustrade to see over the porch -- stairs are all things were popular colonial revival. Elements the late nineteenth century but it borrows from a lot of different styles her. Very -- Oriel windows those windows -- them into the curve with the blast occurred last sort of a popular in the 1880s and ninety's and -- called Oreo because they don't come all the way down to the ground it is dying into the side of the law but that touched the ground to be called a bay window. To heavily detailed house. The dormer on the third floor has chimney coming through the roof of the dormer church. And and that panel with kind of a sun burst on the front is and that sort of queen and -- it is but again they were freely grabbing here in their elements they liked putting together in ways that it made sense visually at the time it's spectacularly done though the paint job looks like it was just completed yesterday. Absolutely and it's. My specialty tell the bow on the porch coming up a wonderful stone base Belvedere now there are some shingle style houses by Hartland Richardson right yes in this paper for just a straight."

" Now Brian this is an enormous houses. Yes this is really among the the largest that heart -- dominate other large parts of the 1880s and ninety's. And typical of -- other houses built for a wealthy merchant aggressor in this -- man named Henry -- so they were new fortunes in the 1880s sure. Now this is a shingle style house but aside from the fact it's entirely covered in shingles what is it that's typical of the style what shingles are certainly are -- what most important pieces but. What qualities this is this horizontal elements throughout delivered vertical wall and see a lot of different buildings. And the kind of ventilation the wall surface I think you should best in this portrait that railing is all -- in just keeps rippling around the base. But also little bit up and it. In this the towers and then also the pattern of the shingle -- the -- is really just that little curved line and the solitude of the basement just vote yes first story at the line that. -- This separation between the first sector floors and that slight flare to at that point where the wall kicks out a little -- is very much characteristic of the shingle style. It is kind of like stretching the skin around all the masses of the house from him and just puncturing where the windows are but the windows are really. They don't really stand out that much. No but also the windows really reflect the way the -- laid out inside as opposed to being rigidly symmetrical is the is the brown a typical color of the would have been used -- shingle covered ourselves -- earth tones dark browns reds I love is like a big chocolate --"