Attic of Memories, House of Dreams; J. Carter Brown Rediscovers His Fabled Boyhood Home

The Washington Post | March 6, 1993| | Copyright

A house lived in long enough is the most personal of possessions, an accumulation of places and things with meanings known best or even only by those who time and again have used them. Ironically, such houses often are experienced most intensely in memory, after they are gone or you have gone: childhood homes.

Not surprisingly, J. Carter Brown, scion of a patrician family whose New England roots go back very nearly to the Colonial beginning, grew up in an extraordinary house. Rather, several of them. There was the old family house in Providence, designed by a Brown, the largest North ...

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