Biscuit Box Houses Newfoundland & New England States

Biscuit Box Houses Newfoundland & New England States Newfoundland-style Biscuit Box houses were built in New England by Canadian emigrants. How many are there, and where? Help identify these unique houses!

06/21/2020

Adams Cove

Adams Cove
06/20/2020

Adams Cove

04/19/2020
04/18/2020

The home of the Kings!, with fabulous spouting rocks and as pretty a setting as to be found in Newfoundland.

Resettled community
04/18/2020

Resettled community

The home of the Kings!, with fabulous spouting rocks and as pretty a setting as to be found in Newfoundland.
04/16/2020

The home of the Kings!, with fabulous spouting rocks and as pretty a setting as to be found in Newfoundland.

04/16/2020

This cover photo, in Broad Cove, illustrates well why Newfoundlanders may keep calling these oh-so-characteristic "saltbox". Traditional saltbox houses, dating back to old England, have an asymmetrical gable roof, two stories in front and one story in back, with a continuous slope from peak to eaves. Not all, but certainly many Newfoundland biscuit box houses incorporate a lower enclosed "porch" on one side or the back; not so different from the more classical salt boxes.

Tonight there was a rainbow over the iceberg grounded in Adams Cove, as the setting sun lit up Dogberry Hill, with Btadl...
06/20/2019

Tonight there was a rainbow over the iceberg grounded in Adams Cove, as the setting sun lit up Dogberry Hill, with Btadley's Cove beyond!

06/18/2019

Mist

06/18/2019

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Kennebunk, ME
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