Where can I find information on what cape style home interiors looked like in the 1790s?
…the folks at Historic Deerfield. Along a mile-long stretch of three-century old street are houses from the 1740’s to the 1790’s that have been restored and furnished as they were in the 18th century. There are fourteen historic house museums featuring life and culture of New England, between 1650 and 1850. There is an online library collection you can browse for ideas: “The Henry N. Flynt Memorial Library serves primarily as a resource center to support research in Historic Deerfield’s museum collections. John Kenneth Byard’s personal library of nearly two hundred books on American decorative arts, presented after his death in 1959, forms the nucleus of the Flynt Library. Today, holdings include 17,000 printed volumes, 130 periodical titles, and over 2,000 microforms, accessible through an on-line catalog. The active acquisition of published secondary sources and rare materials continues to be aided by endowments and gifts. Please go to
