Several friends have given us invaluable assistance, and we are indebted to them for their specific contributions and general support. We thank Miriam Stewart for her research on Boston families and houses, Lynne Marthey, Phyllis Clark, Catherine Fruhan and Charles Jeffrey for their observant comments on the photographs, Tracy Robinson for raising pertinent questions at the beginning of this study, Lynn Maston for her photographs of Boston exteriors and Mike Hubartt for his archival efforts.
We are also grateful to owners and managers of properties who provided us with condition reports of extant houses: Sister Helen Loretta, Alice Wadsworth Strong, Larry Nemer, Marylouise Lynch, Peter Woodbury, Anne T. Holmes and Walter Weller.
The assistance of many individuals who work for libraries, museums, educational institutions, local historical societies, city governments, landmark agencies and historical commissions enabled us to enrich the text and captions with useful contemporary information. We thank Jefferson Moak, Philadelphia Historical Commission; William McKenzie Woodward, Rhode Island Preservation Commission; Esley Hamilton, St. Louis County Department of Parks and Recreation; Helen Login, Public Library, Millburn, New Jersey; Janice Stanland, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts; Lewis Gould, University of Texas; Jeanne Henderson, Public Library, Watertown, Massachusetts; Cynthia Howk, Landmark Society of Western New York; Maizy Wedder-burn, Newark Public Library; Greer Hardwicke, Brookline Historical Commission; Elizabeth Roland, Sawyer Library, Gloucester, Massachusetts; Robert Starkey, East Orange Public Library; Lola Dudley, Mamaroneck Free Library; Valerie Gores, Yonkers Public Library; Ruth Hagstrom, Gloucester, Massachusetts; Mara Kerr, Oswego County Historical Society; William Presson, Cape Ann Historical Association; Herbert Bengtson, Manchester Historical Society; Patricia Schaap, Historian, Livingston County, New York; Thomas Hoctor, City Historian, New Rochelle, New York; Martha Oaks, Cape Ann Historical Association; Margaret Cushing, West Orange Public Library; Gladys O’Neil, Bar Harbor Historical Society; Paul Glassman, Art Institute of Chicago; Deanna Kersnick, Luddington Library, Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania; William Lane, State University of New York at Geneseo; Sandra Roff, New-York Historical Society; Edith McGandy, Hingham, Massachusetts; and Carolyn Durham, College of Wooster.
Finally, we are grateful to the College of Wooster, which has encouraged this project through its faculty-development program and a grant from The Henry Luce III Fund for Distinguished Scholarship. The research and writing of this project was also supported by the exceptionally generous leave program of the college.