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Friends and celebrity revelers frequently came to call on A. Piatt Andrew at Red Roof, his home in Gloucester, Massachusetts by R. TRIPP EVANS Professor of the history of art and co-chair of the Department of Visual Art and History of Art at Wheaton College in Norton, Massachusetts.
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n the first guest book for his Gloucester, Massachusetts, home, Red Roof, noted economist and Bay State congressman A. Piatt
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Historic New England Winter 2020
Andrew (1873-1936) recorded his intention “to seize and hold, though it be ever so fragmentarily, suggestions of dear hours that pass.” Beginning this year,
visitors to HistoricNewEngland. org may digitally “seize and hold” Andrew’s newly restored guest books themselves, thanks to the generosity of his great-great-niece
