Phelps Hatheway Federal Parlor

  • Type: Architectural Remnant



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Timeline

Y/M/D Association Description Place Locale Food Event
1794/00/00 Oliver Phelps Owner In Boston, Oliver Phelps buys Louis XVI style wallpaper handblocked in 1788 by Reveillon. Hatheway House Suffield
1794/00/00 Thomas Hayden Architect Phelps commissions the construction of a substantial north wing to be decorated with French wallpaper, wainscoting and dentil cornices. Decorations in the north wing are original with the exception of the Federal room now at the Winterthur Museum. Hatheway House Suffield
1802/00/00 Oliver Phelps Home A depressed real estate market forces Oliver Phelps to foreclose on the property and move closer to his land holdings in Canandaigua, New York. Hatheway House Suffield
1965/00/00 Henry Francis du Pont Owner In the 1960s, H F duPont removes the Federal Parlor from the Phelps-Hatheway House and installs it at Winterthur Museum in Delaware. Hatheway House Suffield

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Particulars for Phelps Hatheway Federal Parlor:
Disposition Architectural Remnant
Area of Design Decorative Arts
Decorative Arts Wallpaper, covering paper that is pasted in vertical strips over the walls of a room to provide a decorative or textured surface.



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