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American Paper-Staining Manufactory at The Farmers' Museum - Cooperstown, New York. The American Paper-Staining Manufactory, which produces early American wallpaper patterns, demonstrates authentic wood-block printing at the museum using a recreation of an 1837 block press.
Musée du Papier Peint - Rixheim, Alsace, France. The wallpaper museum in Rixheim, located on the premises of the Zuber manufactory, gives demonstrations of traditional wallpaper printing with carved wooden blocks and distemper paint.
Ashlawn-Highland - Charlottesville, Virginia. The home of President James Monroe is refurnished to reflect possessions the Monroes acquired during their years in Napoleonic France. There are Empire furnishings and an antique panoramic wallpaper, "Paysage a Chasse" by Jean Zuber, re-hung in the drawing room.
Barrett House, Society for the Preservation of New England Antiquities (SPNEA) - New Ipswich, New Hampshire. Built c. 1800, the house has a French scenic wallpaper in the dining room. The Merchant-Ivory film of Henry James's The Europeans was shot at the Barrett House.
Beauport, Sleep-McCann House, SPNEA - Gloucester, Massachusetts. In the first half of the 20th century, the China Trade Room was hung with Chinese export hand-painted wallpaper from the 1780s. The previously unused wallpaper had been rediscovered in an attic and is in remarkably pristine condition for its age.
The Hermitage - Nashville, Tennessee. The home of President Andrew Jackson has upper and lower stair halls hung with French scenic wallpaper, "Telemachus," designed by Dufour and ordered by Jackson in 1836. Other historic wallpapers in the mansion have been reproduced in recent years.
Historic Deerfield - Deerfield, Massachusetts. The museum encompasses a number of historic houses. The Asa Stebbins House, in particular, built in 1799, has early wallpaper.
Jeremiah Lee Mansion, Marblehead Historical Society - Marblehead, Massachusetts. The 1768 mansion has several rooms of the most extraordinary original 18th-century hand-painted English wallpaper to survive in situ. The wallpaper features panels painted in tempera in grisaille, depicting Roman ruins based on engravings after Giovanni Pannini.
Lindenwald, Martin Van Buren National Historic Site - Kinderhook, New York. The home of President Martin Van Buren after 1839, Lindenwald has early wallpaper in situ and the largest collection of historic wallpaper samples in the National Park System.
The Morgan House - Oshkosh, Wisconsin. The Morgan House is a Queen Anne revival style house built in 1884 with original Lincrusta and Anaglypta wall coverings.
Phelps-Hathaway House, Antiquarian and Landmarks Society - Suffield, Connecticut. Oliver Phelps added the north wing to the house in 1794. Four rooms retain incredible original French Neoclassical arabesque wallpapers by the master designer Reveillon. The Web site offers a "virtual tour."
Prestwould Plantation - near Clarksville, Virginia. The mansion has three sets of French scenic wallpaper installed in the 1830s.
Riversdale Mansion - Riverdale, Maryland. The house has been restored, including an antique French scenic wallpaper printed in 1814.
Rundlet-May House, SPNEA - Portsmouth, New Hampshire. The 1807 house has original wallpaper in the parlor and a surviving section on a wall of the dining room.
Shandy Hall, Western Reserve Historical Society - Unionville, Ohio. Built in 1815, the house retains an early French scenic wallpaper in the dining room, hung about 1830.
Joseph Webb House, Webb-Deane-Stevens Museum - Wethersfield, Connecticut. The 1752 Webb House retains an English flocked wallpaper, c. 1760, in the room where George Washington stayed in 1781.
The White House - Washington, D. C. The Diplomatic Reception Room on the ground floor of the White House was rehung with antique French scenic wallpaper in 1961. The paper, "Views of America," was first printed in 1834 by Jean Zuber et Cie in Rixheim, Alsace, and this particular set originally hung in a house in Maryland.
Aston Hall, Birmingham Museums and Art Gallery - Birmingham. The 17th-century house has some rooms with old wallpaper.
Christchurch Mansion - Ipswich. A Tudor period mansion that retains several rooms of 18th-century flocked Georgian wallpaper.
Strawberry Hill - Twickenham, near London. The home of Horace Walpole (1717-1797), called the earliest example of Gothic Revival style, has unique 18th-century wallpapers.
Uppark, National Trust - South Harting, Petersfield, West Sussex. A late 17th-century mansion with elegant Georgian interiors. Some 18th-century wallpapers have been painstakingly conserved and restored following a devastating fire in 1989.
Wallington, National Trust - Morpeth, Northumberland. Mansion contains some William Morris wallpapers and earlier wallpapers.
Museums with Historic Wallpaper in Reconstructed or Relocated Period Rooms |
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Brooklyn Museum - Brooklyn, New York.
Metropolitan Museum of Art - New York, New York.
Museum of Fine Arts - Boston, Massachusetts.
Philadelphia Museum of Art - Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
St. Louis Art Museum - St. Louis, Missouri. Installations include the French scenic wallpaper, "Paysage Indien," or "Views of India," by Dufour, c. 1806, originally from the Putnam House in Salem, Massachusetts.
George Walter Vincent Smith Art Museum - Springfield, Massachusetts.
Winterthur Museum, Garden & Library - Winterthur, Delaware. The period rooms include 18th-century hand-painted Chinese wallpaper and the French scenic wallpaper, "Monuments of Paris" by Dufour.
M. H. de Young Memorial Museum, Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco - San Francisco, California. Installations include the French scenic wallpaper, "Voyages of Capitain Cook," the first of the great panoramic papers of Joseph Dufour, designed and printed between 1804 and 1806. The museum is currently closed for renovations.
Temple Newsam House - Leeds. A large estate now housing one of England's premier decorative arts collections, with early wallpaper installations and some block-printed reproduction wallpapers on display.
Musée du Papier Peint - Rixheim, Alsace. The museum galleries include 11 sets of scenic wallpaper on permanent display.
House Museums with Block-Printed Reproduction Wallpaper |
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Adena, Ohio State Historical Society - Chillicothe, Ohio. Adena, the early 19th-century home of Thomas Worthington, has recently restored interior spaces and installed reproduction wallpapers based on original fragments and photographic evidence.
Colonial Williamsburg Foundation - Williamsburg, Virginia. Block-printed reproductions of 18th-century English wallpapers have been hung in the George Wythe House, Brush-Everard House, and Peyton Randolph House.
Gore Place - Waltham, Massachusetts. The 1806 mansion built by Gov. Christopher Gore has a brand new reproduction block-printed wallpaper of a French palm and grapevine pattern installed in the dining room.
McLellan House, Portland Museum of Art - Portland, Maine. The 1801 McLellan House has recently been restored with block-printed reproduction wallpapers.
Monticello - Charlottesville, Virginia. The home of Thomas Jefferson includes a wallpapered guest bed chamber, the North Octagonal Room, restored with a block-printed reproduction wallpaper of a French trellis pattern, c. 1790.
Sargent House - Gloucester, Massachusetts. The 18th-century house has block-printed reproduction wallpaper in a second floor chamber.
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