Market Friday Rotch Jones Duff house
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For this weeks post, I am going to share some shots of the visit Lulu and I did to the Retch Jones Duff house Museum here in New Bedford
For this post I am going to share shots from the Downstairs portion of the house, a future post will take us upstairs and a third post with shots of the house from the outside and a few of my favorite items I saw in the house.
I have quite a few photos for this post so I may well skip providing the camera infor for some of the shots, and will for the most part let the photos do the talking
When you visit the Museum, as at the moment it is self guided tours they have you sit and watcha video of the house, which was quite interesting, this first shot is the hallway off to the right from where we watched the video
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A little bit about the property
The William Rotch Jr. House, now the Rotch–Jones–Duff House and Garden Museum, is a National Historic Landmark at 396 County Street in New Bedford, Massachusetts, in the United States. The three families whose names are attached to it were all closely tied to the city's nineteenth-century dominance of the whaling industry. Because of this, the house is part of the New Bedford Whaling National Historical Park.
Richard Upjohn built the house in the Greek Revival architectural style for William Rotch Jr. in 1834, on a New Bedford plot Rotch had inherited from his father. It was Upjohn's first house, near the beginning of a long career. Rotch also commissioned a garden in the rear, which later owners would significantly expand. The property remained private until 1981, when it was bought by local preservationists and reopened as a historic house museum. It was declared a National Historic Landmark and added to the National Register of Historic Places in 2005. Today the museum educates visitors not only about whaling but, through its gardens and associated programs for local schools, about the environment as well.
They gave a printout which described what was in each room, and they also had descriptions by many of the pieces
It was interesting checking out the pieces in each display, the hand made candles in this one caught my eye, the silver more for Lulu
Isnt this such a cool writing desk
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A porcelain doll, kind of cool and kind of creepy
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One of the couples that lived there, the guy kind of reminds me of Rowan Atkinson in the show Blackadder
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These were ornate and fancy
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Ok for those that have asked for a selfie of me here it is :)
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I have lived in apartments smaller than this one room
Anyone want to tickle the ivories
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Candlesticks with style
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And similar Chandeliers
A touch of Asia
And into the Dining room
Ready for dinner?
And now the pantry
And then we went upstairs but thats for another post
And that’s all folks
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BEER.Museums are enlightening, great divide between the have and have not.
Always interesting to see how they lived, mulling over how many more had to keep their lifestyle comfortable.
Pieces preserved a good reminder of intricate workmanship from the pantry to the parlour.
Well photographed sharing the design especially the writing desk, would be interesting to peek into them and see if the tools of the trade are still neatly packed.
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It was a cool museum being in an actual house they lived in and all related to how they lived then I find my mind wandering to what it must have been like when I viewed some of the items
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Grand old homes tell stories by what is on display, many had upper sections where staff lived in to look after children, some homes many children...
Craftsmanship in China tea sets, silver works, chandeliers to wooden floors, furniture, all built with pride to last.
Ohh yes the built to last mentality sadly is a thing of the past isn’t it
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Thanks for sharing these photos.
They are wonderful, @tattoodjay!
Aren’t they such fun and you can imagine you were there at the times as you look at each piece
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Wow! That is such a wonderful edition to #MarketFriday! I love the whaling history of Massachusetts! It is so distinctly them. How fortunate for them to be able to purchase this piece of property for that purpose. The period pieces are truly distinctly from that time, in fact, they may have even purchased it from the estate. That is such a common thing to do. Now I should go back and reread, you may have addressed that.
From the couches to the chandelier, the butler's pantry was to die for! How lovely it is laid out and to keep everything so intact and written about. Nice! Nice! Kudos to you for getting the china and crystal stemware. such little pieces of history, but, it really puts it all together for me. The ceiling medallion for the chandelier was so elegant and ornate, I have some nice ones, but, ornate ones like that are just so classy. The style of the couches and tables is definitely from a well-to-do Victorian house. The house was so much fun! Thanks for taking us!
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It is an amazing place I drifted in my imagination back in time as I views so many of the pieces imagining what it was like them well what it was like fir the upper class of course
Comfortable. I think I could get used to it. :)
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What a neat looking museum! I bet it would have been fun to live there.
That secretariat desk really is neat. I'd love to have one. If I did, I would force myself to write by hand on it; I would refuse to use a computer.
Ohh yeah would almost be sacrilege to put a computer on that desk wouldnt it
I love such old houses, the furniture and the other beautiful things you posted, JJ, but I could never live there with all these precious pieces - I would destroy all, I'm afraid, one dinner and the plates would be gone :)
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You and me the same my friend, cool to visit, but I like a house to fele lived in and not one you worry you put something inthe wrong place or break LOL
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Yep, living in a house like this would be very stressful 😂
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I had an aunt I hated when we visited so many fine delicate ornaments and everything perfectly clean
When we visited them I mostly hung out in the yard lol
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Haha, I can fully understand you, my grandmother had some old Chinese porcelaine which I wasn't even allowed to look closer at it 😂
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