The Good Guys Won This One!
The Merchant’s House Museum, showing the original Duncan Phyfe chairs. The carpet and window treatment are exact reproductions of what …
Author Archives: mary knapp
How a Hundred-eighty-six-year-old House Survived the Odds and Why It Should Be Cherished
August, 1933—The country was in the depths of the Great Depression. Gertrude Tredwell had just died at the age of …
Helen Hayes Nailed It!
We never know who is going to walk through the door of the Merchant’s House. One day in August of …
102 Words That Say It All
Ada Louise Huxtable was the first architecture critc for a major U.S. newspaper and will long be remembered for the …
From the White House to the Merchant’s House
On September 26, the New York City Council will vote on whether to approve a developer’s application to build an …
Why Robots Scare Me
It’s not that I fear they will take over so many jobs that we will end up with a …
We Have a New Cleaning Lady!
THEN: Sprinkle the carpet with damp tea leaves, which always should be saved for that purpose, by putting them into …
The Lesson Learned is not Always the Lesson Taught
Herb is the one who usually writes about poetry, but I have something to say about a poem. Miss Mary …
No, I Don’t Want to Install Now!
I don’t want to install this evening, I don’t want to be reminded tomorrow. I want you to quit bothering …
Leave it to the Ladies—Women and Historic Preservation
In 1853 Louisa Bird Cunningham was traveling by steamboat down the Potomac River. As the boat passed George Washington’s home, …
