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9 Φεβ 2024 · To visit Carter House today is to step back in time and experience an uncanny nostalgia, perhaps a stirring of ancestral memories embedded deep in the genes, provoked by the elegant beauty of handcrafted tools, deep stone fireplaces and cedar beams.
Carter House is one of the oldest homes in Bermuda built in 1640 by the descendants of Christopher Carter. So who was Carter? George Somers was the first who started the British colonization in Bermuda in 1610.
This hut has been built with palmetto thatched roof, cedar, lime and clay walls which is an exact replica of how the early settlers of 1600s built their houses in Bermuda. There are antique furniture and artifacts inside including an old tavern table.
14 Φεβ 2013 · english: carter house; built in 1640 by descendants of christopher carter, one of the three men left on the island when somers went to jamestown; he squealed on the ambergris plot and so was rewarded with valuable land; the ambergris plot was intended to smuggle valuable ambergris into england note the welcoming arms staircase
Carter House is believed to be one of the oldest Bermuda vernacular farmhouses in St David’s and indeed Bermuda surviving largely in its original structure and form for over 3 centuries. The House is now a museum preserving the one of a kind culture and history of the St David’s Islanders.
Carter House exhibits almost all the elements of the early vernacular stone houses: • gable ends, supported by substantial chimneys • an upper two or three-room living space • reached by an outside staircase called “welcoming arms” on the front • the rooms are above a large storage basement more info from: Bermuda National Gallery
Carter House is “a link among the days to knit the generations each to each.” Alfred Lord Tennyson. A place to sit in silence and let the past speak to you.
