{"id":115,"date":"2008-12-09T04:12:55","date_gmt":"2008-12-09T09:12:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mass.historicbuildingsct.com\/?p=115"},"modified":"2016-09-17T00:41:38","modified_gmt":"2016-09-17T04:41:38","slug":"the-josiah-day-house-1754","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mass.historicbuildingsct.com\/?p=115","title":{"rendered":"Josiah Day House (1754)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><center><img src='http:\/\/mass.historicbuildingsct.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/12\/josiah-day-house.jpg' alt='josiah-day-house.jpg' \/><\/center><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/storiescarvedinstone.com\/coppermine\/displayimage.php?album=21&#038;pos=4\">Josiah Day<\/a> built <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Josiah_Day_House\">his house<\/a> in West Springfield by 1754 on land he had purchased in 1746.  <a href=\"http:\/\/cyndy.smugmug.com\/gallery\/16664_gXZhf\/1\/558242_4LoTu\/Medium\">The house<\/a> is the only known solid brick saltbox house of it&#8217;s period in the United States.  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.west-springfield.ma.us\/Public_Documents\/WSpringfieldMA_Historian\/HistoricTour\/WalkingTour1\/1K.htm\">The home<\/a> remained in the Day family until 1903, when it was sold to the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hampdencountyhistory.com\/wspfld\/day\/index.html\">Ramapogue Historical Society<\/a>.  It is now <a href=\"http:\/\/www.west-springfield.ma.us\/Public_Documents\/WestSpringfieldMA_Attractions\/dayhouse_home.htm\">a house museum open to the public<\/a>. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Josiah Day built his house in West Springfield by 1754 on land he had purchased in 1746. The house is the only known solid brick saltbox house of it&#8217;s period in the United States. The home remained in the Day family until 1903, when it was sold to the Ramapogue Historical Society. It is now a house museum open to the public.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,8,84],"tags":[18,97],"class_list":["post-115","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-colonial","category-houses","category-west-springfield","tag-museum","tag-saltbox"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mass.historicbuildingsct.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mass.historicbuildingsct.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mass.historicbuildingsct.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mass.historicbuildingsct.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mass.historicbuildingsct.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=115"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mass.historicbuildingsct.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7423,"href":"https:\/\/mass.historicbuildingsct.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115\/revisions\/7423"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mass.historicbuildingsct.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=115"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mass.historicbuildingsct.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=115"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mass.historicbuildingsct.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=115"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}