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(4.) Nutting, Wallace Nutting's Biography, p. 57.

(5.) For more on this process, see Joyce Barendsen, "Wallace Nutting, an American Tastemaker. The Pictures and Beyond," Winterthur Portfolio, vol. 18, nos. 2-3 (Summer-Autumn, 1983), pp. 187-212.

(6.) Nutting's Chain of Colonial Picture Houses was made up of Hospitality Hall (now the Joseph Webb House) in Wethersfield, Connecticut; Broadhearth (now the Saugus National Historic Site) in Saugus, Massachusetts; the Cutler-Bartlet House in Newburyport, Massachusetts; the Hazen-Garrison House in Haverhill, Massachusetts; and the Wentworth-Gardner House in Portsmouth, New Hampshire.

(7.) Wallace Nutting, Wallace Nutting Windsors: Correct Windsor Furniture ([Wallace Nutting Incorporated, Cambridge, Massachusetts], 1918), p. 44.

(8.) Ibid., p. 1.

(9.) Wallace Nutting, A Windsor Handbook.. (Wallace Nutting, Incorporated, Saugus, Massachusetts, 1917), p. 127.

(10.) For more on this movement, see Christopher Monk-house, "The Spinning Wheel as Artifact, Symbol, and Source of Design," in victorian Fumiture: Essays from a Victorian Society Autumn Symposium, ed. Kenneth L. Ames, published as Nineteenth Century, vol. 8, nos. 3-4 (1982), pp. 154-172; and Rodris Roth. "The Colonial Revival and Centennial Furniture," Art Quarterly, vol. 27, no. 1(1964), pp. 57-81.

(11.) Nutting, Wallace Nutting's Biography, p. 128.

(12.) Ibid., p. 127.

(13.) Wallace Nutting to William Sumner Appleton, September 30, 1915 (Appleton correspondence, Society for the Preservation of New England Antiquities, Boston).

(14.) Nutting relates this story of the cut-down cupboard in Furniture Treasury... (3 vols., Old America Company, Framingham, Massachusetts, 1928-1933), vol. 1, P1. 451.

(15.) Wallace Nutting, Wallace Nutting Furniture Catalog--final Edition ([Wallace Nutting], Framingham, Massachusetts, 1937), p. 34.

(16.) Two examples have recently been acquired by the Society for the Preservation of New England Antiquities in Boston and the Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art in Hartford. Others are owned by Pine Manor College in Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts, the Harvard Club in Boston, and a private collector.

(17.) Wallace Nutting, The Great American Idea (Wallace Nutting, Incorporated, Ashland, Massachusetts, 1922), p.2.

(18.) Nutting to Appleton, July 7, 1919 (Appleton correspondence).

(19.) Franklin H. Gotshall, "Nutting Revisited," Fine Woodworking, no.40 (May-June 1983), p. 24.

(20.) For the Wallace Nutting advertisements, see The Magazine ANTIQUES, vol. 12, no. 3 (September 1927), p. 249; ibid., vol. 13, no. 4 (April 1928), p. 325; ibid., vol. 14, no. 1 (July 1928), p. 16. I thank Brigham Bowen, an intern for the National Museum of American History in Washington, D.C., for ferreting out these advertisements.

(21.) Florence Paull Bergerto George Dudley Seymour, August 16, 1920 (Berger correspondence, Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art archives, Hartford). Berger served as general curator of the museum during this period.

(22.) Hartford Daily Courant, February 15, 1925.