Tag: FDR Suite Renovations

Salmagundi

The Victorians loved words with strange and exotic origins, and here’s one of my favorites: SALMAGUNDI (slm-gnd n. pl. sal·ma·gun·dis) 1. A salad of chopped meat, anchovies, eggs, and onions,…
Why We Fight

In 1942, in the first full, dark year of the War, famous Hollywood director Frank Capra had a problem. Commissioned by the Government to make a series of films to…
Lathrop’s Desk

“The rooms look as if struck by sheet lightning, the sitting-room having the chairs and tables but no curtains or carpets. The bed is in place in my room and…
All the King’s Horses…

Who said you couldn’t put Humpty-Dumpty back together again? Several days’ worth of hard work later, the Suite has emerged with its new coat of paper, remarkably transformed, looking for…
Wallpaper At Last!

An epic campaign ended today as the first rolls of historic wallpaper were applied to the walls of the FDR Suite study. You may remember all the trials and tribulations…
Time Machine

One of the things that amazes me most about this project is that every now and then, a piece of the puzzle drops mysteriously from the sky, as if by…

Salmagundi