Cape houses were first built by the early Puritan settlers to
Massachusetts in the mid-1600's, as they first moved onto Cape
Cod from their early settlement at Plymouth. This Cape House was built
in New Hampshire about 1790 and has all the features of an early New
England Cape: a symmetrical floor plan with a central front door and
chimney, a ridge beam supporting the hewn rafters, and large hewn beams
forming the second floor and exposed across the first floor ceiling.
Teb, Matt and David restoring the frame at our workshop.
