Join us for a closing celebration of Historic New England’s exhibition, The Importance of Being Furnished: Four Bachelors at Home, in collaboration with The History Project. Enjoy cozy cider and charcuterie in the fall splendor on the terrace and then explore the show with an introduction by its curator, Tripp Evans.

This exhibition tells the stories of four men who defined American style from the Gilded to the Jazz Age, yet whose personal lives have until recently remained mostly in shadow. In profoundly creative ways, these men used their homes to forge identity, foster relationships, and create lasting design legacies – all in an era that looked upon the “bachelor aesthete,” a figure presumed to be gay, with a mixture of admiration and profound suspicion. We celebrate their impact on early twentieth-century historic preservation, collecting, and interior design.

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