Photograph, 1947, Sandusky formal parlor

Photograph, 1947, Sandusky formal parlor

Vintage photograph showing the formal parlor of Sandusky. Photograph appeared in The Iron Worker magazine, Summer - 1947 as part of the article "When Hutter's House was Huner's House."

Photograph depicts the parlor as it appeared near the end of the Hutter ownership of Sandusky. In the photograph several 19th century furnishings can be seen. The settees, rocking chair, girandole, paintings, sword, and gilded tin valances were donated to the Historic Sandusky Foundation and are part of the interior restoration of the formal parlor.

"The parlor was the place where important visitors would be received. Where the front hall was the public face of the home, the parlor was where the first impressions of the family were formed. Decorating decisions were made in a very calculated manner so as to project the image a family wished to portray. Parlors contained a family’s ‘best’ in every way. It would have the highest ceilings, the largest fireplace, and most elaborate furnishings."

From: The Antebellum Period by James and Dorothy Volo, Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 2004. 

1947

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Photograph, 8" x 10"