THE DOWNEAST DILETTANTE

A Novice blogger has many things to learn, and my lesson this morning is not to dive into large subjects too soon.  I'm exhausted from t...

M y thanks to JCB  for asking me to submit a 'five favorites' list to her book week posts .   It was quite a mental exercise to nar...

Mrs. Stotesbury and her emeralds in 1926, the year Wingwood was completed. Pastel portrait by Douglas Chandor Note:  For Part 1, Click H...

Did I say I wasn't going to talk much about myself in this blog?  Well, as it turns out, I lied.  You're about to discover one of Ma...

O ne of the intriguing aspects of the E.T. Stotesbury summer cottage in Bar Harbor,  also discussed in a previous post , is the giddy borrow...

The picture at the head of this blog is a section of plate 25 from Asher Benjamin's Country Builder's Assistant , the first American...

In 1912 widowed banker E.T. Stotesbury, the senior partner of the Philadelphia office of the Morgan Bank, and one of the country's riche...