Tag: Harvard Student Life

  • Of Daybeds and Historical Narratives

    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

    Bloody Monday

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

  • The FDR Suite Restoration Appears in the New York Times!

    The FDR Suite Restoration Appears in the New York Times!

    Check out the great article in the Art & Antiques Section of the Times, published: March 11, 2010 online, and in the March 12 print edition! THERE’S A NEW DEAL…

  • Tree Exercises, and Odd Historical Paths Taken

    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

    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: The Harvard Years

    Lathrop Brown and FDR: The Harvard Years

    (This is the second installment in a continuing series taken from the unpublished notes of filmmaker Pare Lorentz.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:…

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The Franklin Delano Roosevelt Foundation
Adams House, Harvard College
26 Plympton Street, Box 471
Cambridge, MA 02138