This illustrated room-by-room tour through some of the most famous rooms offers a brief history and interpretive summary of each one, including its historic architectural interior and the collection of furniture, silver, needlework, textiles, paintings, prints, ceramics, and glass on display.

Explaining why he created 175 period rooms after inheriting his family home at Winterthur, Henry Francis DuPont wrote, "I didn't believe the early-American arts and crafts had been given the recognition they deserved, so I assembled examples of architecture, furniture, and widely divergent early-American materials of all sorts to show America as it had been."

PAULINE EVERSMANN is Director of Education, Public Programs, and Visitor Service at Winterthur.

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