PREFACE
Reading edition
This book is dedicated to those who assist in keeping unmarred, the old Nantucket dwellings.
Its object is to be of assistance to that end.
The drawings are by Mr. Alfred Shurrocks, photographs by the Pivirotto Studio, the printing by The Inquirer and Mirror Press—all of Nantucket Island, Massachusetts.
The following organizations, while in no way responsible for the preparation of the book, or for the subject matter in it, wish to be herein recorded as in sympathy with a continued movement to preserve the architecture of old Nantucket in every possible detail:
Nantucket Historical Association, Chas. E. Congdon, Pres.
Nantucket Civic League, William L. Mather, Pres.
Nantucket Plant Guild, Mrs. William Wallace, Vice Pres.
The Winter Club, Fred V. Fuller, Sec.
E. U. C.