historic interiors

6 min read 2022-09-06 19:21:31

Dickinson Domicile

I drove “out west” to the recently-reopened Emily Dickinson Museum last week thinking it would just be a pleasant last road trip of the summer

7 min read 2022-08-29 22:36:57

We were in York Harbor all last week with family and friends, several of whom had never been to this region of New England before. So I was a bit of

6 min read 2022-08-15 19:08:18

I made a very quick trip out to the Hudson River Valley at the beginning of last week to visit my brother and brother-in-law, and despite its brevity

8 min read 2022-07-31 23:47:19

One hot morning last week I was looking at some paintings by the American Impressionist artist Matilda Browne (1869-1947) when I realized I wanted to

5 min read 2022-06-28 18:52:02

I love Waterhouse Wallhangings, a company which has been manufacturing wallpapers based on historical patterns for decades, and will do anything or

5 min read 2022-06-28 18:52:02

I love Waterhouse Wallhangings, a company which has been manufacturing wallpapers based on historical patterns for decades, and will do anything or

13 min read 2022-06-02 22:13:54

There are two structures which made an impression on me early in my childhood and sort of set the standard for historic grandeur in my mind:

5 min read 2022-03-07 11:30:34

The story is often told that Martinstown, County Kildare was built so as to provide Augustus Frederick FitzGerald, third Duke of Leinster, with a

10 min read 2022-03-01 22:39:50

The Phillips Library of the Peabody Essex Museum, steward of so much of Salem’s printed, written and visual history amongst its many collections,

6 min read 2022-02-21 11:30:44

In October 1962 Pope John XXIII opened the Second Vatican Council, summoned in order to initiate aggiornamento (or modernisation) within the Roman

4 min read 2022-01-31 11:30:17

Some weeks ago, the sad present state of a Penal-era Roman Catholic chapel in County Cavan was featured here (see A Sorrowful Sight « The Irish

1 min read 2022-01-22 11:30:46

Home since 1870 to the Royal Irish Academy of Music, No.36 Westland Row, Dublin was originally built by Nicholas Tench in 1771 and nine years

2 min read 2022-01-15 11:30:39

This weekend, it is announced that the latest recipient of the Historic Houses of Ireland/O’Flynn Group Heritage Prize is Clonalis, County

10 min read 2021-12-28 05:10:29

Our Christmas was Covid-impacted like everyone else’s, but it ended up being just lovely, with most of our time spent with my brother and

5 min read 2021-12-13 11:30:00

In the second volume of his magisterial life of W.B. Yeats, Roy Foster records a visit made by the poet to Markree Castle, County Sligo in late