Living with antiques: New England begins at home.

From: The Magazine Antiques | Date: May 1, 2006| Author: | Copyright information

The New England couple who owns the collection featured here was first lured into the sport of collecting thirty years ago by the gift of a copy of Wallace Nutting's Furniture of the Pilgrim Century (1921) and a subsequent friendship with collectors who lived in a period house. Ten years later they found the perfect setting for their evolving collection: a house that was built by 1697, was slightly enlarged between 1725 and 1730 when the roof was raised, and has remained largely unchanged since then.

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