The Miniature Museum
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The Miniature Museum
“To see the small thing in the large and the large thing in the small is one of the great pleasures of miniature work.”
—Louise Andrews Kent,
Mrs. Appleyard and I (1968) -
Victorian Alcove
Tabletop is Vermont marble. Photograph of Lincoln was made during his lifetime. Watering pot from France. Silver from Mexico.
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Vermont Bedroom
about 1810
Furniture is older: heirlooms brought from Massachusetts. Silhouettes are of Remember and Rachel Bliss Kent. -
Gentleman’s Library
about 1820
Furnishings are earlier. Rug is a copy of one of 18th century crewel work. It is made on a piece of homespun woven by Polly Curtis Kent. All the drawers of the highboy open. Busts by Anne Reese Robey. -
Vermont Kitchen - Living Room
about 1800
The Kent highboy came from Rehoboth, Massachusetts by ox-team over a blazed trail in 1797. Rugs by Pearl Bullock. Scale: one inch to one foot -
Dining Room in the Sea Captain’s House
about 1780
Most of the furniture is earlier - Queen Anne period. Rug, chests and wallpaper are Chinese. Silver is English. -
Day Nursery in Brookline, Massachusetts
on February 22, 1894
Franklin Stove is made out of toothpaste tube. Doll’s house shows how the larger one was painted at the time. There is furniture in it. -
Dining Room - Living Room
about 1890
James Wheeler Edgerly’s summer cottage on Iron Bound Island near Bar Harbor, Maine.
Writer, author, and creative, Louise Andrews Kent made a series of miniature rooms inspired by the Thorne Miniature Rooms that she’d seen and loved at the Art Institute of Chicago. Beloved by young and old for more than half a century, Mrs. Appleyard’s Miniature Museum is still available today for viewing at Kent.
