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The Decoration of Houses, a manual of interior design written by Edith Wharton with architect Ogden Codman, was first published in 1897. In the book, the authors denounce Victorian-style interior decoration and interior design, especially rooms decorated with heavy window curtains, Victorian bric-a-brac and overstuffed furniture. They argue ...
Nevertheless, he told publisher James T. Fields about it, referring to it as "a homely picture of old New England homes". [2] The poem was written in Whittier's home in Amesbury, Massachusetts, [3] though it is set at his ancestral home in Haverhill. [1] Snow-Bound was first published as a book-length poem on February 17, 1866. [4]
Snowbound, a film starring Betty Blythe; Snowbound, a film starring Stanley Holloway and Dennis Price; Snowbound: The Jim and Jennifer Stolpa Story, a 1994 television movie; Snowbound, a film starring Erika Eleniak, Monika Schnarre, and Peter Dobson
Snowbound is based on a true story. Jim and Jennifer Stolpa and their infant son Clayton are 500 miles from their home in Castro Valley, California, when they lose their way and are stranded in an endless wilderness of deep snow near the ghost town of Vya, Nevada, east of Cedarville, California. They battle for survival against the elements ...
Interior with Portraits is an 1865 genre scene painted by American artist Thomas Le Clear (1818–1882), commissioned by Franklin Sidway (1834–1920). It features Sidway's siblings, James and Parnell, posing for a photograph in an artist's studio.
The Jonathan Corwin House, known locally as The Witch House, is a historic house museum in Salem, Massachusetts. It was the home of Judge Jonathan Corwin (1640–1718) and is one of the few structures still standing in Salem with direct ties to the Salem witch trials of 1692. Corwin bought the house in 1675 when he was 35 and when the house was ...
The house sat vacant for a year until June 1, 1919 until J. Oswald Dailey purchased it. 1919 - 1940 Turbulent times for the Boynton House. The 1920s were a tumultuous time for both the country and the Boynton house. According to family members, Dailey lost all of his money and his wife's money speculating in commodity futures.
Mercer House (now the Mercer Williams House Museum) is located at 429 Bull Street in Savannah, Georgia. [3] Completed in 1868, it occupies the southwestern civic block of Monterey Square . The house was the scene of the 1981 killing of Danny Hansford by the home's owner Jim Williams , a story that is retold in the 1994 John Berendt book ...