salt boxes

Sloped-roof New Englanders

Salt boxes are containers designed to hold salt for cooking, typically featuring a wide opening for easy access and sometimes a hinged wooden lid.

The term also refers to a style of colonial American house with a distinctive asymmetrical roofline—two stories in front sloping down to one story in back, resembling the shape of old salt containers.

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pitched roofs · container · table · asymmetry · kitchen · hinges · flavor · cooking · timber framing · New England · lids · colonial architecture · historical architecture · pepper · food · preservation · home · Massachusetts

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Opposites
roofline symmetry

salt boxesGeorgian houses

British period homes, 1714-1830

colonial architectural style

salt boxesSpanish colonial

Relating to Spain's overseas territories

French colonial · adobe houses · Victorian houses · modern architecture

contents/purpose

salt boxessugar bowls

Vessels for table sweetener

honey pots · tea caddies

Family

salt, box, salts, salted, salting, salty, saltiness, saltier, saltiest

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Top 500,000
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Known to kids · Used worldwide · Timeless · Concrete · Everyday, not technical · Rated G