Shingle House

Activity: Directions: Click on the words Shingle House Questions and print out the questions that appear about the Shingle House. Using the information from your tour of the Shingle House, the links listed below, and the photos on this page, answer the questions. Links: Museum Buildings Brochure Google

		Bee Hive Oven
Sugar Loaf Cutter
Burl Bowl	Knot on tree that can be made into a burl bowel		Small Dish with floral design engraved silver spoon both belonging to the first family, Daniel Burt & Martha Bradner
Dishes from England made for import to the Colonies	Sewing Sampler	Franklin Stove in North Parlor	Painting of a Revolutionary War battle on the Hudson River
Dove of Peace on Queen Ann Mirror	Coverlet made in 1848 in the Borning Room
	Flax Spinning Wheel with branch to hold flax	Flax Plant

History of Coverlet

Phoebe Ann Edsall of Edenville, NY, helped shear the sheep, carded and spun the wool into yarn. Then securing dye from the barks of trees, she dyed the yarn. It was then sent to Newburgh, where a man, who made his own designs, wove it. The story is that his designs were so intricate that eventually he went insane from such difficult labor.

Mrs. Edsall was the Great Great Grandmother of the former owners of the coverlet,  Mrs. L. N. Peave and Mrs. T. E. Cobb.