Archive – Restoration Diary

• New Views of the Suite, November 2012

  I was at the Suite yesterday, the day after Thanksgiving, beginning what’s going to be a three-month intensive effort to catalog the objects in the collection for inclusion in our…

• Recent Acquisitions and News – July 2012

  Hello Everyone! Well I don’t need to tell you how warm it’s been in Cambridge, because chances are you’ve been as warm or warmer. Still, despite the heat and the…

• Recent Acquisitions & News

  Hello everyone! Well spring has certainly sprung in Cambridge, and while our weather wildly swings between days in the 80’s and nights in the teens, I thought I would take…

• FDR Suite Video Tour

  I put together this short tour from several hours of footage we shot this week while testing the cameras and lighting for the New Fireside Chats. There’s many a photographic…

• Brimfield Bounty

  So I’ve just returned from three delightful afternoons wandering the Brimfield Antiques Fair. For those of you not familiar with this thrice-annual event, Brimfield is the nation’s largest antiques fair,…

• New Views

  A very quick post here to show you two major developments. The desk and draperies have arrived! As have some of the textiles, like the mantle-piece cover: I’ll be taking…