Articles

• 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  (This is the fifth and final installment in a continuing series taken from the unpublished notes of filmmaker Pare Lorentz.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  (This is the fourth installment in a continuing series taken from the unpublished notes of filmmaker Pare Lorentz.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:…