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Events: EXHIBIT: Convenient and Fashionable:
Furniture of Inland Massachusetts, 1790-1830


EXHIBIT: Convenient and Fashionable:
Furniture of Inland Massachusetts, 1790-1830
October 24, 2009 - December 31, 2010
 

Collection of Old Sturburidge Village, 5.38.9

This new exhibit opening on Sat., October 24, features rarely-seen pieces of early Massachusetts furniture from the OSV collection and on loan from private collectors, and spotlights work by previously overlooked but now famous Massachusetts rural cabinet makers and artisan-farmers like Solomon Sibley of Ward (now Auburn), Nathan Lombard of Sutton, Alden Spooner and George Fitts of Athol, and William Lloyd of Springfield.  Explore the exhibit online.