Structures

Original Paintings by Mane Artist, J. P. Gaudette

OLDE GRIST MILL ©

Acrylic on Stretched Canvas
Price: $325          18"X24"

The Olde Grist Mill
1774
East Lebanon, Maine

This water powered grist mill and
 shingle mill was built of hand-hewn
 timbers in 1774 by Joseph Hardison.  
Millstones were used to grind the grain
 from  neighboring farms.   It was a
community mill.  Each man helped
to raise it and each ran if for a day 
when his turn came around.

Now a National Historic Site,  it was in 
process of being restored to pre-Civil
 War running condition  back in 1976. 

 Small industrial buildings like this one
 are precursors of the first textile mills.

© Long Hill Farm


Oil on Stretched Canvas
Sold(by Andy's Agway)  20"X24" 

FAR FROM THE MADDING CROWD

It seems to me I'd like to go
Where bells don't ring, nor whistles blow,
Nor clocks don't strike, nor gongs sound,
And I'd have stillness all around.

If 'tweren't for sight and sound and smell,
I'd like the city pretty well,
But when it comes to getting rest,
I like the country lots the best.
                              ---Nixon Waterman

JACKSON BRIDGE ©


Oil on Canvas
Sold(by Andy's Agway)       16"x20"

JACKSON COVERED BRIDGE
Built 1876
Jackson, New Hampshire

Often called the
 "Honeymoon Covered Bridge" 
it was built by 
Charles Broughton & his son Frank.

It spans the Ellis River and is a
Paddleford truss construction, one 
of 55 remaining today.