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A precious legacy of furniture.(Winterthur Museum and Country Estate)
The furnished historic house is a type of museum that exists in greater abundance in the United States than anywhere else. It says a great deal about our ideals that these highly individualistic museum environments are so diverse and widely represented. They present a spectrum of social class, regional culture, and domestic environments. Although wealth and prominence are disproportionately represented, many sites portray the life of families who epitomize the American experience of a particular place or time. It is history up close and personal. As detailed in previous articles in this issue, the National Society of the Colonial Dames of America (NSCDA) was at the ...
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