During the 18th century, most meeting house or church services were conducted during daylight hours. In the 19th century, a number of meeting houses added chandeliers whose many arms included candle cups with candles for light.
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Vaseline Glass Vaseline glass obtains its distinctive color by adding a small amount of uranium to the glass formula. It usually can be detected with a black light. Marble [...] Click here to continue reading. .style1 { margin: 4px; } The Foster-Lemmens Collection THREE GENERATIONS OF ANTIQUARIANS Foster’s Antiques of Wexford, Pennsylvania, like so many American businesses, had a small grass roots beginning. Bud Foster returned from World War II and started the business with his wife Tommie in 1946 on Route 910 in Allegheny County. The timing could not have been more perfect. GFs were returning home, and with the help of government financing, were [...] Click here to continue reading. Estate of Joseph Stanley For more than 200 years, residents and visitors passing in and out of New Hope, PA along Old York Road have scene a handsome high-walled mansion on the hill. Built between 1816 and 1823, Cintra was the dream of William Maris, a romantic and financially reckless entrepreneur who modeled his grand residence on a Portuguese castle of the same name. For twenty-three years, the interior of the New [...] Click here to continue reading. Dorothy Thorpe Glass Dorothy Thorpe was independent artist and interior designer with a glass decorating studio in Los Angeles from the 1930′s into the 1960′s. She purchased glass from various companies, including Fostoria, Heisey and Cambridge glass, decorated with hand-painted enamels, sand-blasting, etching or gold and/or silver overlay. She also designed glassware and ceramics. Most Dorothy Thorpe pieces are signed with a trademark of a large printed T in the center with a smaller [...] Click here to continue reading. Dominick Labino-Glassmaker (1910 – 1987) “In 1963, after working for thirty-five years in the glass industry, Dominick Labino began blowing glass for the first time. He brought to his work in art glass the skills and experience he had gained in glass research and technology. His free-form designs, swirled colors, and carefully planned air sculptures constituted a unique and inventive approach to paperweight making. Born in Pennsylvania, Labino studied at the Carnegie Institute of [...] Click here to continue reading. Thomas A. Gray Tom Gray of Old Salem, North Carolina is an heir of the R. J. Reynolds Tobacco Company family fortune. A graduate of the Winterthur program in Early American Culture, Tom curated the corporate collection of the R. J. Reynolds Tobacco Company. He partnered with his mother, Anne Pepper Gray, to found the Old Salem Toy Museum. Gray has a long association with the Old Salem Inc. historic restoration, including vice president [...] Click here to continue reading. Roycroft – New York Arts & Crafts Community After visiting William Morris’s Kelmscott community of artisans, charismatic businessman and writer Elbert Hubbard (1856 to 1915) embarked on his own version in East Aurora, New York. His Roycroft community, America’s only Arts & Crafts campus, began in 1895 as a high quality leather bookbindery and publishing house. The name came from two 17th century London printers. The community’s large and prominently displayed mark, the orb [...] Click here to continue reading. |
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