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England architectural history, and in 1984 he was appointed Yale's first Charles F. Montgomery professor of American decorative arts, a position he held until his retirement in 1992. Cummings died at The Elaine Center,
156:. In an interview with Laura Beech, Cummings reflected on his grandmother's influence: "At a personal level, my grandmother had as much influence as anyone on my life. She was a scientist by training, a
171:, antiquarian, author and collector, taught Cummings to deconstruct a building to look behind its repairs and later additions. In graduate school, Cumming's thesis was on seventeenth-century
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Descendants of John Comins: (Ca. 1668-1751) and His Wife, Mary, of Woburn and Oxford, Massachusetts, and
Windham County, Connecticut: (Male Lines Traced to the Ninth Generation)
186:. In 1951, as colleges began cutting staff due to the Korean War, Cummings lost his academic post and reluctantly became an assistant curator in the American Wing at
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graduate who had studied astronomy. She drilled into me the need to be very factual. I also fell right in with all her genealogical interests."
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In his teens, Cummings joined the
Society for the Preservation of New England Antiquities (SPNEA, now known as
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Cumming's career mixed academic and museum positions. After receiving his degree in 1948, he taught at
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Throughout his term at SPNEA, Cummings continued to lecture and teach. He served as an instructor the
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Bed
Hangings: A Treatise on Fabrics And Styles In The Curtaining Of Beds, 1650-1850
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217:'s New England and American Studies Program. In 1982 Cummings taught a course at
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in 1950. When young, he spent winters with his parents in
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307:The Framed Houses of Massachusetts Bay, 1625-1725
254:The Framed Houses of Massachusetts Bay, 1625-1725
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326:Abbott Lowell Cummings: DuPont Award Winner 1998
209:'s summer program in American material culture,
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311:1998 Henry Francis du Pont Award from the
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391:Abbott Lowell Cummings Papers (MS 1713).
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213:. In 1971 Cummings helped to establish
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366:"Abbott Lowell Cummings (1923 - 2017)"
152:, and summers with his grandmother in
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313:Winterthur Museum, Garden and Library
207:New York State Historical Association
1051:People from Deerfield, Massachusetts
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1066:20th-century American male writers
303:L.L. Winship/PEN New England Award
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1031:American male non-fiction writers
1026:American architectural historians
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236:Architecture in Early New England
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1061:20th-century American historians
340:Cummings, Abbott Lowell (2001).
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1046:People from St. Albans, Vermont
622:First Harrison Gray Otis House
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1071:Historians from Massachusetts
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893:Governor John Langdon House
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678:Spencer–Peirce–Little Farm
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62:Hadley, Massachusetts
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134:St. Albans, Vermont
43:St. Albans, Vermont
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846:Amesbury
722:Beauport
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372:6 August
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786:Danvers
660:Newbury
637:Lincoln
580:Windham
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736:Saugus
715:Others
614:Boston
559:Others
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301:1979
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374:2017
346:ISBN
84:(BA)
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