Knowles Pump Works- Wonderful Old Folk Art Block Building white cat face unfussy example preserving several pieces

unfussy example preserving several pieces together under glass

involving spelling

and also lovely

the images documented the growth of beans

There is an old chip or chink at the base of the cage

Knowles Pump Works- Wonderful Old Folk Art Block Building white cat face unfussy example preserving several piecesOn the back of this little building is written "Knowles Steam Pump", pointing to Warren, MA, I believe, where the Knowles Steam Pump factory operated in the last quarter of the 1800s, prior to merging in 1897 to become Blake and Knowles and moving to East Cambridge, MA. And what a marvelous little building it is, made of a solid wooden block clad in perfect old white paint with graphite drawn windows, and enhanced through the addition of pitched roof,