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Dr. Peter Toppan House, 5 High Road, Newbury Old Town

Dr. Peter Toppan House, 5 High Road, Newbury Old Town, Essex County, MA. Surveyed as HABS MASS,5-NEWB,2-, with 1 photograph, 1 measured drawing and a 280-word written history.

From the record

“Dr. Peter Toppan House, 5 High Road, Newbury Old Town, Essex County, MA”

Survey record header. Machine-read text.

surveyed by the federal HABS program as HABS MASS,5-NEWB,2- · the record runs 280 words · one of 230 surveyed structures published for this county.

Sources: the survey record at the Library of Congress

Dr. Peter Toppan House, 5 High Road, Newbury Old Town, Essex County, MA, photograph filed with the federal survey
Dr. Peter Toppan House, 5 High Road, Newbury Old Town, Essex County, MA, measured drawing filed with the federal survey

1 photograph and 1 measured drawing from the federal survey record, Library of Congress.

Location

42 words

Source document Quoted word for word from HABS MASS,5-NEWB,2-. Not written, edited or summarised by this site.

5 High Road, Newbury Old Town, Essex County, Massachusetts The Toppan house is located at latitude: longitude: The coordinate was obtained using Google Earth on 13 December The coordinate s datum is There are no restrictions on its release to the public.

Written history

143 words

Source document Quoted word for word from HABS MASS,5-NEWB,2-. Not written, edited or summarised by this site.

This project was an early survey began by the Historic American Buildings Survey during the The project was never completed. In HABS made the decision to transmit the unfinished materials from the to the Library of Congress due to the information potential of the documentation, and the fact that many of the unfinished drawings from this period document important historic properties, many of which are no longer extant. The Peter Toppan House is still extant. Due to the incomplete nature of the documentation and the lack of field measurements to verify the drawings, the drawings may not meet HABS standards and have been marked as such.

Some of these drawings are still in pencil, that combined with the age of the drawings, presented challenges when digitizing them, so the scanned images are not as clear as most of the drawings within the collection.

In context

Newbury Old Town, Massachusetts The place record: every map, photograph and survey of this town.
Essex County, Massachusetts 300 topographic sheets across the county.
Library of Congress record The original filed report, and the sheets the survey produced. Those published here appear above.

Also surveyed in Newbury Old Town

7 records

The federal surveyors worked through Newbury Old Town building by building. These are the other structures they measured and filed a report on, longest report first.

SheetStructure SurveyReport
Swett-Ilsley House, measured drawing filed with the federal surveySwett-Ilsley HouseHABS MASS,5-NEWB,4-43 words
Milestone, photograph filed with the federal surveyMilestoneHABS MASS,5-NEWB,7-38 words
Milestone, photograph filed with the federal surveyMilestoneHABS MASS,5-NEWB,8-37 words
Jackman-Willett House, photograph filed with the federal surveyJackman-Willett HouseHABS MASS,5-NEWB,5-35 words
Knight-Short House, photograph filed with the federal surveyKnight-Short HouseHABS MASS,5-NEWB,3-33 words
Tristram Coffin House, photograph filed with the federal surveyTristram Coffin HouseHABS MASS,5-NEWB,1-31 words
Milestones UU, photograph filed with the federal surveyMilestones UUHABS MASS,5-NEWB,6-28 words

Provenance

  • Written history. Quoted verbatim from HABS MASS,5-NEWB,2-. United States federal work, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.
  • Text capture. Machine-read from the scanned typescript filed with the survey, so spelling and spacing follow the original page.
  • How this page is made. Documentary passages are quoted from the linked federal record; page labels and counts are clearly marked as site presentation or calculations.