Frank Preston House
New Ipswich Historical Society
Frank Preston House - Sep 1908
From an album of photos taken by Charles A. Plumer. Presented to the New Ipswich Historical Society by Mrs. Melinda R. Kendrew in 1961. Some photos have been hand tinted. Album compiled by Hazel E. Balch.
John Preston had a small building on this property that he used for his law office. It is visible in this final photo behind the furthest elm tree.
WWII Veterans
Hazel Moore compiled a photo album of New Ipswich WWII veterans for the New Ipswich Historical Society. She was not able to obtain a photo for every WWII veteran and created a list of those veterans without a photo. Contact the Society if you can help complete the album. We did find one for Oiva Anderson and Henry Stark.
On this day - April 29, 1908
James Roger diary entry
29th (Wednesday)
Fair and fairly warm. David teaming wood for Mr. Walker. Mother washed part of hall and her and Jim and I tidied up round the house. Wrote to Hamish.
On this day - April 29, 1897
William Jurian Kaula diary
Zorn seems to be entitled to carry away the honors at the New Salon with two with two portraits that are painted with his wonderful dash and spirit and so full of life and color as to give a startling impression that is at once so pleasing and satisfactory that the portraits in the rest of the collection appear to lack much life. He paints with the directness of a master and his cleverness is the talk of the town. A huge canvas by Gervex that represents a great assembly of people in the Palais de l'Industrié is highly colored and finished in a realistic manner that would please the ordinary spectator. It is a faithful reproduction of facts. Of this painter Will H. Low said he would please those people who had obtained their ideas of art and nature from photography. Of the many other large works their size is their chief distinction.
Carolus Duran is now an old man and was once among the leading portrait painters but his few canvases seem to lack the qualities that made him so famous.
Dagnan-Bouveret has no important work and exposes a few small portraits which are good but do not give an idea of his strength as a painter of masterpieces.
Lhermitte the peasant painter also exposes a few small works which are of open-air life that are as usual splendid compositions and rendered in his peculiar color and manner. I like his color in his pastels much better than in these works in oils as it is much truer to nature. These works show a great improvement in his feeling for color over the large work which is in the Luxembourg Gallery.