Discoveries: Site History

February 3rd, 2023

Sally Bland Clarke Manning: A wife’s first impression of Millford

Author: Grant Quertermous, CAHPT Curator & Director of Collections “Married, At Warner Hall, Va., on Wednesday, 26th April, by the Rev. Charles Mann, Hon. John…

September 29th, 2022

King Charles III’s 1990 Visit to Roper House

Author: Grant Quertermous, CAHPT Curator & Director of Collections While many historic houses in the United States can make the claim that George Washington slept…

June 15th, 2022

“the trees, are made the most of as ornaments to the grounds”: Understanding John L. Manning’s 1855 Landscape Improvements at Millford

Author: Grant Quertermous, CAHPT Curator & Director of Collections Newly uncovered documentary evidence indicates that John Laurence Manning undertook a large-scale landscaping project at Millford…

May 24th, 2022

“The Merry Widow of Roper House”: Mary Coachman Allston

Author: Grant Quertermous, CAHPT Curator & Director of Collections “Burglary—The residence of Mrs. Mary C. Alston, situate on East Bay-street opposite the Battery, was forcibly…

January 19th, 2022

“Beyond any other family in the place”: The Donaldsons in Fayetteville, North Carolina

Authors: Grant Quertermous, Curator and Director of Collections, and Robert Leath, President Friends of Classical American Homes and its sites will recognize the name Robert…

November 15th, 2021

A Chronology of Richard H. Jenrette’s Historic Properties, Part I: The Houses

Author: Grant Quertermous, Curator and Director of Collections “There’s no place like home,” Richard H. Jenrette wrote in his book, Adventures With Old Houses, “the…

July 30th, 2021

Bringing Objects Home

 Grant Quertermous, CAHPT Curator & Director of Collections In the nearly fifty years that Richard H. Jenrette collected American decorative arts, he and his partner,…