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Audio Version of HISTORICAL NEW HAMPSHIRE

"Tuck's Gift"

Historical New Hampshire, Volume 65, No. 2, Fall 2011

Editor: Donna-Belle Garvin, Director of Publications, New Hampshire Historical Society

Foreword

Author: William H. Dunlap, Executive Director, New Hampshire Historical Society


(5.4 mb, ~6 min listening time)



"The Education of a New Hampshire Philanthropist"

Author: Franklin Brooks, former Associate Professor of French, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee


(43.8 mb, ~47 min listening time)



"The Creation of 'New Hampshire's Temple of History,' 1900-1911"

Author: James L. Garvin, retired State Architectural Historian, New Hampshire Division of Historical Resources


(34.2 mb, ~36 min listening time)



"From a Single Stone: The Portal Sculpture of the New Hampshire Historical Society's Building"

Author: James L. Garvin, retired State Architectural Historian, New Hampshire Division of Historical Resources


(34.2 mb, ~28 min listening time)





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The story of how the New Hampshire Historical Society's landmark headquarters and library building came into being a century ago is worthy of a stage drama. Graphic design for centennial celebration by Schuyler D. Scribner, courtesy of New Hampshire Public Television.
Concord Evening Monitor, November 23, 1911. Courtesy of the New Hampshire State Library.
Philanthropist Edward Tuck (1842-1938), watercolor on paper, c. 1880. "Unlike too large a proportion of men who love to praise their own works, Mr. Tuck prefers to let his works praise him." New Hampshire Historical Society.
The two-story rotunda of the New Hampshire Historical Society's 1911 building, "one of the truly spectacular architectural spaces in New Hampshire." Photograph by Fiona Boyd, courtesy of New Hampshire Home magazine.
New Hampshire Historical Society entrance, from postcard, c. 1911-12. The monumental figures and seal above the door, designed by New Hampshire-born sculptor Daniel Chester French (1850-1931), were carved from a single block of Concord granite. New Hampshire Historical Society.
New Hampshire Historical Society - Founded 1823