September 02, 2024
Dorian Cole, WPAMC '24
Arriving back at Winterthur after a week-long voyage to “the North” that involved a stop at Beauport, a forty-room masterwork of architectural salvage and immaculately eccentric interior design choices, I couldn’t help but see our own 175-room chimera-house with new eyes. The similarities are no coincidence, nor am I the first to observe them. After assisting with the decoration of Henry Francis du Pont’s Chestertown ...
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August 26, 2024
Laini Farrare, WPAMC '24
Figure 1: Nantucket Windsor Chair, Nantucket Whaling Museum. Photo Courtesy of Laini Farrare.
It was a sunny crisp day to visit the island of Nantucket, when the WPAMC Class of 2024 and our leaders boarded the fast ferry from New Bedford, Massachusetts to the “The Little Grey Lady of the Sea.” Visiting the island felt like going back in time, as it was the whaling capital of the world before New Bedford took the title ...
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August 19, 2024
Lyric Lott, WPAMC '24
What is the key to a frightfully good haunted house? One’s mind might jump to dark corridors and crowded interiors scattered with dusty human skulls, creepy masks, and the sense of being watched by glassy-eyed, taxidermied beasts. Intriguingly, this is not far off the mark from what one can currently find in the basement of the Armour-Stiner Octagon House in Irvington, New York. From now until October 31st, 2023, visitors may ...
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August 12, 2024
Em Dombrovskaya, WPAMC '24
International Tennis Hall of Fame. September 11, 2021. Wikimedia Commons. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:International_Tennis_Hall_of_Fame_(51488824300).jpg.
After a picturesque drive past the stately Gilded Age mansions of Newport, Rhode Island, I was struck by the architectural range of a downtown block of Bellevue Avenue. The block—commonly known as the Bellevue Avenue/Casino Historic District—contains the ...
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