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["Breaknolle," George Melburn Studebaker house, Ocean Boulevard, Littlle Boars Head, N.H. (LOC)

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  • judo_dad1953 said:
    You are creating some great work. Thanks!
  • Richard said:
    wonderful colors from the past!
  • Pixel Wrangler said:
    typos: Littlle s/b Little Boars s/b Boar's
  • Pixel Wrangler said:
    The Breaknolle mansion at 40 Ocean Boulevard in North Hampton (Little Boar's Head), NH, was built in 1874. It was purchased by George M. Studebaker (1865-1939), an executive with the Studebaker Corporation, in 1909.

    In 1916, Mrs. George (Ada) Studebaker (1866-1954), along with seven other women, founded the "Rye Beach/Little Boar’s Head Garden Club". Their mission statement encourages growth horticulturally and agriculturally; improvement of the neighborhood; and says "members should have plenty of frivolity and elasticity."  96 years later, the Rye Beach/Little Boar’s Head Garden Club today has 75 members. [1] [2]

    The Studebaker family owned the property until 1936 when they sold it to John Higgins, owner of the Worcester Pressed Steel Company. The Costello family, owners of the Lowell Sun (Massachusetts) newspaper, acquired the property in 1962. [3]

    While the garden today is no comparison to what it was in the 1920's, there is a tradition of beautiful gardens along Ocean Boulevard, including the breathtaking Fuller Gardens – a turn of the century public botanical garden that was once part of the summer estate of Alvan T. Fuller.  It's right on the ocean, not a five-minute walk from The Breaknolle.

    If you would like to add your personal touch to the gardens at The Breaknolle, the six-bedroom, ten-bath home can be yours for $3,550,000. [4]

    The home as it appears today: (it's the house on the point with the four chimneys).

     
    "Little Boar's Head"                         by Leslee_atFlickr
    Little Boar's Head

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  • Kristi (LOC P&P) said:
    Pixel Wrangler, Thanks for catching those typos. We will make the fixes in our original catalog record, but it will take some time to appear in Flickr. Also, thanks for sharing the additional information about the Breaknolle.

American photographer Carol M. Highsmith, replicating, as well as possible, a pose at Yellowstone National Park in northwestern Wyoming by pioneer photographer Frances Benjamin Johnston, who inspired Highsmith's career (LOC)

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  • Chuck Walla said:
    Thank you to great talent Highsmith for sharing this.

Gertrude Käsebier (LOC)

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  • Chris Devers said:
    "Käsebier" = "Cheese-beer"? Great name :-)
  • swanq said:
    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gertrude_K%C3%A4sebier
  • trialsanderrors said:
    Most of the time Gertrude had more comely subjects in front of her camera than here...