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Architecture as artifact: period rooms at MESDA.(Museum of Early Southern Decorative Arts)
Stepping from the well-lit museum gallery space through a low doorway into a small room, everything seems dark, but as one's eyes adjust to the dimmed light, a dark wood floor, a huge brick fireplace, an enclosed corner stair, a spectacular batten door, and regularly spaced ceiling joists slowly come into view (Fig. 3). You have just entered the Pocomoke Room, one of the oldest of MESDA's twenty-four period rooms. Together, these rooms, which span the museum's geographic and chronological scope, offer an extraordinary window into the wide-ranging architectural traditions of the early South. Many were acquired, or collected as he termed it, by Frank L. Horton in the years ...
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