Reopening after years of restoration, the Lefferts Historic House in Brooklyn now also acknowledges the enslaved people who lived and worked there. By Laurel Graeber In 1765, a young woman named Flora ...
Architect Samuel Melcher III designed the Colonial-style house in 1806 for Reverend Benjamin Titcomb, printer of Maine’s first newspaper and contributor to the state’s constitution. In 1822, Henry ...