Articles

Articles by Michael Weishan about the FDR Suite and Harvard of the Gilded Age, taken from the project’s blog between 2009 and 2025

  • Of Daybeds and Historical Narratives

    We have a new arrival in the Suite this week. A wonderful burgundy and gold late 19th-century daybed that looks as if it were made and upholstered for the room.…

  • Bloody Monday

    Those of us fond of history (and I included myself in this group) often have a tendency to romanticize the past, or at least think that life today presents a…

  • Tree Exercises, and Odd Historical Paths Taken

    One of the most interesting things about the FDR Restoration Project is that I never know down which fascinating historical path I’ll be drawn next. Take yesterday for instance: Dave…

  • Interior Design, and Redesign, Harvard 1900

    Shortly after last year’s FDR dinner, I received an email from a certain Mr. Dave Robinson in Maine, inquiring as to whether or not we’d be interested in taking a…

  • Lathrop Brown and FDR: Endgame

    (This is the fifth and final installment in a continuing series taken from the unpublished notes of filmmaker Pare Lorentz. For the introduction to these articles, click HERE.) The Lathrop…

  • Lathrop Brown and FDR: 1905-1920

    (This is the fourth installment in a continuing series taken from the unpublished notes of filmmaker Pare Lorentz. For the introduction to these articles, click HERE.) The Lathrop Brown Interviews:…