Eleven generations ago, my husband's grandfather Isaac Goodale and his wife Patience Cook Goodale had this home built near Salem, Massachusetts and IT IS STILL STANDING! Its history is described below:
This colonial home was built in West Peabody in 1668 by Isaac and Patience Cook Goodale. In 1928 it was reconstructed at 153 Argilla Road near Russell Orchards in Ipswich by Robert Lincoln and Susan Goodale. First Period elements include 5 fireplaces and a large central chimney, diamond leaded pane casement windows, hand carved raised paneling, a steep pitched roof, bare clapboards and trim, board and batten doors, and chamfered summer beams.
Most first-story summer beams run in a longitudinal direction from the end-to chimney-girt but in this house we find transverse summer beams on the first floor, functioning as binding beams. The first-story transverse summer is almost exclusively an Essex county phenomenon. The house is listed in theNational Registry of Historic Places.
More recently this home was built in the 1930's in Laramie, Wyoming for William Goodale, also a descendant of Isaac and Patience Goodale. It is currently the alumni house at the University of Wyoming.
This home is located in St. George, Utah and was built after 1864 by John Alger who is my third great grandfather.
Finding pictures of homes, farms, land, etc. adds another dimension to family history research, making a connection with our ancestors more realistic. Do a little internet googling and perhaps you'll discover something interesting for one of your ancestors!
