period rooms
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Want to Unclutter Your House? Lessons from Pilgrims
By the time this blog is written, another seemingly irrelevant blog has raised some criticism at…
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Period Rooms at Teddy Roosevelt Birthplace
There are three types of historic homes. The first is a historic home without historic furnishings,…
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A Visit to Lefferts House
I went to the Lefferts Historic House on the east side of Prospect Park last Sunday.…
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Class notes from “Rethinking Period Rooms”, a series of lectures at BMA — 2. The Evolution of Chairs
The most interesting thing in the study of objects is that not only the styles inevitably…
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Class notes from “Rethinking Period Rooms”, a series of lectures at BMA — 1. The Birth
Ironically, the American Period Rooms now displayed and treasured in the major art museums were born…
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Multi-tasking Rooms
Most of the early 18th-century period rooms in the Brooklyn Museum of Art, to my surprise,…