Lee Hall, Virginia is one of a number of buildings moved to their present location by Christopher Ohrstrom, an expert in early American decorative arts and owner of Adelphi Paperhangings. He is also Chairman of the...
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Abbeyleix, County Laois, Ireland
I was asked to provide technical advice on the repainting of two fire-damaged rooms in this James Wyatt-designed house. View Larger...
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The London Library is the world's largest independent lending library. It was founded in 1841 by by a group of men who included Thomas Carlyle, who was dissatisfied with some of the policies at the British Library....
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I was employed to work alongside Susan Buck the American paint analyst on the analysis of the paint in the early 19th century Simmons-Edwards House (the famous Pineapple Gates House) at 14 Legare Street in...
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The first Duke of Richmond (1672-1723) bought Goodwood as a hunting Lodge in 1697. Part of the Jacobean house survives in the form of the present Long Hall. It was the third Duke (1735-1806) who was responsible...
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Boconnoc can trace its history back to the Normans. The estate and house were taxed in the Domesday Roll A.D.1087. At one stage it belonged to the Pitt family and it was eventually bequeathed to the Fortescue...
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In 1659 Compton Bassett House was a U-shaped building which was open to the south-east. Its main range, lying north-east and south-west, had a hall at its north-east end and, south-west of the hall, a screens...
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Elstree School was founded in 1848, in Elstree, Hertfordshire. With the outbreak of war in 1939, staff and 70 boys moved to Woolhampton House in Berkshire. This fine Georgian house, standing in a 150-acre estate...
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I was employed to examine the history of the Edinburgh Assembly Rooms and learn what I could of their decoration. I produced a detailed proposal for an analysis of the paint in order to provide the information...
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Valentines Mansion is situated in Valentines Park in the London Borough of Redbridge. Built in 1696 for Lady Tillotson, the widow of the Archbishop of Canterbury, it was a family house until Sarah Ingleby, its last...
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