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Calling all house-proud Maplewood residents! Need some ideas for
paint colors? This profusely illustrated talk at 2:00 p.m. by
preservation consultant and Columbia University Professor Janet W.
Foster provides a fascinating look at the materials and colors of
historic American architecture. Ms. Foster has wide experience in
analysis and research on paints and other finishes used to protect and
decorate the homes of Americans from the Colonial era to the early 20th
century. This year she collaborated with the Board of the Durand-Hedden
House to develop its current new color scheme. Learn how the paint
history on this particular house provides a great starting point for
examining the trends that made architecture in the past both beautiful
and fashionable.
Visitors will also be able to peruse the exhibit, “The Maplewood
Theater: Its Forgotten Saga,” which explores the ever-changing 87-year
history of the Maplewood Theater, spanning silent films, vaudeville,
talkies, a famed era of live theater, neighborhood cinema, and the
current sixplex.
The Country Store will be open and featuring historic-themed
treasures, many at discounted prices: mini school slates, early American
children’s games, books and toys, facsimile documents, quill pens and
ink, historic cook books, cookie molds, tin lanterns, hand blown blue
birds, reproductive decorative items and ceramics, and more. The
hard-to-find original "Doors of Maplewood" poster and "Smile", the
history of Olympic Park, will also be available.
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