Architecture
Behind the Closed Door: Privacy by Design in 19th-Century Houses
Greek Revival Mystery: Who Designed the Bartow Mansion?
Hold Your Horses: Bartow-Pell’s Carriage House
Restoring the Splendor of the Mansion: The Shutter Restoration Workshop
Sleeping Beauty: A Romantic Ruin Awakes
Bartow Family
The Bartows and Art: A Lost Portrait, Famous Relatives, and Artistic Neighbors
Bridget, Mary, Hannah, and John: Who Were the Bartow Servants?
The Camera as Eyewitness: An Everyday Portrait of the Bartows
Happy Anniversary, Mr. and Mrs. Bartow!
Holidays Past: A Bartow Christmas in the Civil War Era
Living in Style: A June Day at the Bartow Estate, 1838
Living on Hope and Moonbeams: Bartow Tutor Augustus Moore
Miss Lorillard’s Wedding in 1827: Did the Bride Wear White?
The Pleasures of Imagination: R. & W. A. Bartow and the Book Trade in Early 19th-Century New York
Summer Mourning: Death at Bartow, June 24
A Taste for Poetry: R. & W. A. Bartow, Asher B. Durand, Mozart’s Librettist, and British Verse
Theodoret and Sarah: A Bartow Love Story
Collection
Beautiful Again: An Argand Lamp Shines Anew
Beneath the Grime: A Dazzling Center Table Revealed
A Botanical Paradise: Transactions of the Horticultural Society of London
Chariot Clock: Neoclassicism in the Hands of an Expert
Classical to Gothic Revival: Recent Acquisitions Attributed to Charles N. Robinson and Thomas Brooks
Classical Reflections: Recent Gifts from Richard T. Button
Crowning Glory: Bartow-Pell’s Lannuier Bedstead
Fit for a Lord of the Manor: A Tester Bedstead Attributed to Duncan Phyfe
The Girl in the Portrait: Emma Beach and Mark Twain
The Latest Fashion: An 1840s Dress Tells All
Let’s Talk Silhouettes: An Edouart Conversation Piece
Made in New York: Recent Gifts from Mr. and Mrs. Stuart Feld
More than Summer Style: An 1840s Straw Bonnet
Multitasking Furniture: A Ladies’ Writing Fire Screen
Parlor Must-Have: The Center Table in Nineteenth-Century Interiors
Pretty and Cool: A White Summer Dress, ca. 1895
Through the Looking Glass: A Pair of New York Pier Mirrors by Hosea Dugliss
Under the Willow Tree: A Schoolgirl Mourning Embroidery
Decorative Arts
All the Colors of the Rainbow: Ombré Patterns from 1820 to 1850
Beautiful Again: An Argand Lamp Shines Anew
Chariot Clock: Neoclassicism in the Hands of an Expert
Classical Reflections: Recent Gifts from Richard T. Button
A Mansion Favorite Returns Home: Abigail Walker Needlework Mourning Picture
A New Floor with an Old Look: Bartow-Pell’s “Floor Cloth”
Through the Looking Glass: A Pair of New York Pier Mirrors by Hosea Dugliss
Under the Willow Tree: A Schoolgirl Mourning Embroidery
Fashion History
Beyond Calico and Gingham: Fashion and the Irish-Immigrant Domestic Servant
Fantasy at the Ball: Fancy Dress, Masquerades, and Tableaux Vivants in the 19th Century
Fashion Passion Redux: Making Reproduction 1850s Undersleeves
Gilded Age Glamour Personified: The Gibson Girl
Hats, Gloves, and Pearls: Fashion Promenade in the Garden, 1960
The Latest Fashion: An 1840s Dress Tells All
Miss Lorillard’s Wedding in 1827: Did the Bride Wear White?
More than Summer Style: An 1840s Straw Bonnet
One Thousand “Girls” and the “Indestructible” Crinoline: W. S. and C. H. Thomson’s Skirt Manufactory
A Peek Inside the Wardrobe: Busks, Gloves, Shawls, and Shoes
Pretty and Cool: A White Summer Dress, ca. 1895
A Stitch in Time Saves Nine? Making a Reproduction Late 1830s Dress
They Will Do It Anyway: Bloomers, Cycling, and the New Woman
What Can You Learn from Old Clothes?
Fine Art
Art in the Garden: The Peacocks of Gaston Lachaise
The Bartows and Art: A Lost Portrait, Famous Relatives, and Artistic Neighbors
George Inness’s The Woodchoppers (1858) on Display at Bartow-Pell
The Girl in the Portrait: Emma Beach and Mark Twain
Haunting Likenesses: The Anonymous 19th-Century Woman in Photographic Portraits
Hudson River School Landscapes on Display at Bartow-Pell
Let’s Talk Silhouettes: An Edouart Conversation Piece
Mourning Marietta: A Family Story in Portraiture
Neoclassical Darlings: Two Watercolors after Adam Buck
Pell Family Portraits: Amelia Grace Pell Craft and William E. Craft
Portrait of a Patron: Isaac Bell and Saint-Mémin
Furniture
Beneath the Grime: A Dazzling Center Table Revealed
Classical to Gothic Revival: Recent Acquisitions Attributed to Charles N. Robinson and Thomas Brooks
Classical Reflections: Recent Gifts from Richard T. Button
Crowning Glory: Bartow-Pell’s Lannuier Bedstead
Fit for a Lord of the Manor: A Tester Bedstead Attributed to Duncan Phyfe
If This Mahogany Desk Could Talk: A Colorful Tale of Aaron Burr and His Wives
Made in New York: Recent Gifts from Mr. and Mrs. Stuart Feld
Multitasking Furniture: A Ladies’ Writing Fire Screen
Parlor Must-Have: The Center Table in Nineteenth-Century Interiors
Portrait of a Patron: Isaac Bell and Saint-Mémin
Through the Looking Glass: A Pair of New York Pier Mirrors by Hosea Dugliss
Gardens
Alice Vaughan-Williams Martineau: An Englishwoman’s Crusade to Cultivate American Gardeners
April showers . . . It’s true, they really do bring May flowers
Art in the Garden: The Peacocks of Gaston Lachaise
A Botanical Paradise: Transactions of the Horticultural Society of London
A Carpet of Velvety Green: Lawns on 19th-Century Country Estates
A Modern Man: A. J. Downing and the American Gentleman’s Country Seat
Reimagined: A 19th-Century American Apple Orchard
Rose Garden Mania: A New York City Garden Club Joins the Craze in 1917
Tools from the Past: A Conversation with the Collector
Tussie-Mussies—Do Flowers Talk?
Winter Gardens: Bringing the Outdoors In!
Zelia Hoffman Does It Again: Untold Stories of the 1916 Flower Show at Bartow
History
Bluestockings and Blue Bloods: The Pelham Priory School for Young Ladies
Chicken Pie and Blindman’s Buff: What You Might Not Know about an Old-Fashioned Thanksgiving
The Early Pells: Life in a Colorful 17th-Century World
The Girl in the Portrait: Emma Beach and Mark Twain
If This Mahogany Desk Could Talk: A Colorful Tale of Aaron Burr and His Wives
In the Pelham Woods: The Poets of Pelham Priory
Just Up the Road: Henry James’s Cousin Minny Temple
Nineteenth-Century Women Lean In
One Thousand “Girls” and the “Indestructible” Crinoline: W. S. and C. H. Thomson’s Skirt Manufactory
Quills and Steel: Using Pens to Interpret the Past
Sea Breezes and Business as Usual: Mayor La Guardia’s Summer City Hall, 1936
The Wigwam at Bartow-Pell: A Living History for Students
Holidays
Baubles and Bling: Holiday Trees Sparkle at Bartow-Pell
Chicken Pie and Blindman’s Buff: What You Might Not Know about an Old-Fashioned Thanksgiving
Holidays Past: A Bartow Christmas in the Civil War Era
Sugarplum Fantasy: Visions of Candy Long Ago
International Garden Club
Alice Vaughan-Williams Martineau: An Englishwoman’s Crusade to Cultivate American Gardeners
Hats, Gloves, and Pearls: Fashion Promenade in the Garden, 1960
Rose Garden Mania: A New York City Garden Club Joins the Craze in 1917
Sleeping Beauty: A Romantic Ruin Awakes
Zelia Hoffman Does It Again: Untold Stories of the 1916 Flower Show at Bartow
19th-Century Customs
Behind the Closed Door: Privacy by Design in 19th-Century Houses
Cheerful and Bright (and Smoky): Staying Warm in 19th-Century American Homes
Dashing Through the Snow! Sleigh Riding in the 19th Century
An Elaborate Pile of Comfort: Making the Bed in the Days of Horsehair, Straw, and Feathers
Fantasy at the Ball: Fancy Dress, Masquerades, and Tableaux Vivants in the 19th Century
Hold Your Horses: Bartow-Pell’s Carriage House
Nineteenth-Century Women Lean In
Parlor Must-Have: The Center Table in Nineteenth-Century Interiors
The Pleasure of Your Company (but No Gaucheries, Please!): Dinner Parties in 19th-Century America
Quills and Steel: Using Pens to Interpret the Past
Sugarplum Fantasy: Visions of Candy Long Ago
A Taste for Poetry: R. & W. A. Bartow, Asher B. Durand, Mozart’s Librettist, and British Verse
They Will Do It Anyway: Bloomers, Cycling, and the New Woman
Tussie-Mussies—Do Flowers Talk?
What’s a Girl to Do? Nineteenth-Century Lifestyle Guides for Young Ladies
Women and Girls in 19th-century America: The “Quiet Circle”?
Pell Family
The Early Pells: Life in a Colorful 17th-Century World
Here Lyes the Body: The Pell Family Burial Ground
Pell Family Portraits: Amelia Grace Pell Craft and William E. Craft
Servants
Behind the Closed Door: Privacy by Design in 19th-Century Houses
Beyond Calico and Gingham: Fashion and the Irish-Immigrant Domestic Servant
Bridget, Mary, Hannah, and John: Who Were the Bartow Servants?
Living in Style: A June Day at the Bartow Estate, 1838
Living on Hope and Moonbeams: Bartow Tutor Augustus Moore
Women’s History
Alice Vaughan-Williams Martineau: An Englishwoman’s Crusade to Cultivate American Gardeners
Bluestockings and Blue Bloods: The Pelham Priory School for Young Ladies
Haunting Likenesses: The Anonymous 19th-Century Woman in Photographic Portraits
Just Up the Road: Henry James’s Cousin Minny Temple
More than Summer Style: An 1840s Straw Bonnet
Nineteenth-Century Women Lean In
One Thousand “Girls” and the “Indestructible” Crinoline: W. S. and C. H. Thomson’s Skirt Manufactory
A Storm of Applause and Hisses: The Mob Convention and Women’s Rights, 1853
They Will Do It Anyway: Bloomers, Cycling, and the New Woman
Under the Willow Tree: A Schoolgirl Mourning Embroidery
What’s a Girl to Do? Nineteenth-Century Lifestyle Guides for Young Ladies
Women and Girls in 19th-Century America: The “Quiet Circle”?
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