CHAPTER Five--The Nutter House and the Nutter Family.
The Nutter House--all the more prominent dwellings in Rivermouth are named after somebody; for instance, there is the Walford House, the Venner House, the Trefethen House, etc., though it by no means follows that they are inhabited by the people whose names they bear--the Nutter House, to resume, has been in our family nearly a hundred years, and is an honor to the builder (an ancestor of ours, I believe), supposing durability to be a merit.

If our ancestor was a carpenter, he knew his trade.

I wish I knew mine as well.

Such timber and such workmanship don't often come together in houses built nowadays.
Imagine a low-studded structure, with a wide hall running through the middle.

At your right band, as you enter, stands a tall black mahogany clock, looking like an Egyptian mummy set up on end.