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The 1695 Daniel Brooks House uses unbaked brick insulation

The 1695 Daniel Brooks House uses unbaked brick insulation

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Kyle McLonely

This Massachusetts timber-frame house retains early 18th-century features like wide pine floorboards and unbaked bricks used between wall coverings.

The Daniel Brooks House is a 2+1/2-story timber-frame structure located at 19 Brooks Road in Lincoln, Massachusetts. The oldest portion of the house was built c. 1695 by Daniel Brooks.

The interior retains many of its early 18th-century features, including exposed beams and wide pine floorboards. To provide insulation between the inner and outer wall coverings, unbaked bricks were used.

Eleazar Brooks, a descendant of Daniel Brooks, was a prominent local politician during the American Revolution. The house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on October 25, 1973.

Sources: Wikipedia, OpenStreetMap, Wikidata, Wikimedia Commons

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