Early American furniture in the New Castle Historical Society in Delaware.

From: The Magazine Antiques | Date: May 1, 2005| Author: Zimmerman, Philip D. | Copyright information

The New Castle Historical Society in Delaware was founded in 1934, three years after a group saved the Amstel House, an early eighteenth-century brick structure named in honor of New Amstel, which was renamed New Castle in 1665. (1) Another local group that restored and furnished the Dutch House in the 1930s became part of the society by the mid-1940s. The furniture displayed in these two houses includes examples of local and national interest. Some locally owned examples expand ou...

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