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2785
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Founded in 1965, the Museum of Early Southern Decorative Arts (MEDSA) in Winston-Salem houses reconstruction's of actual rooms from historic houses located across the South.
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The State (NoCar F 251 S77), Vol. 55 Issue 10, Mar 1988, p8-11, il
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27572
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The discovery of three groups of chairs with related design and construction characteristics, and with early histories based near the Fredericksburg-Falmouth area of Virginia has prompted further appraisal of chair-making in the region. Each chair features a crest rail, which may be characteristic to Tidewater Virginia down into the Albemarle Sound region of North Carolina.
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27582
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John Shearer of Martinsburg, West Virginia is credited for the largest group of documented Chippendale furniture. Shearer’s furniture pieces are marked by unique stylistic qualities in design and ornamentation, Shearer’s signature, and numerous inscriptions. An 1801 desk-and-bookcase regarded as Shearer’s masterpiece is in collection at the Museum of Early Southern Decorative Arts in Winston-Salem, North Carolina.
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27613
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In the early 1800s, Thomas Johnson and his family established a chairmaking business in Mecklenburg County, Virginia. Known as Johnson chairs, this group of ladderback chairs became prevalent throughout southeastern Virginia and upper North Carolina. The chairs represent the largest surviving group of its kind due to certain enduring features of construction.
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27612
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In the collection of the South Carolina Library in Columbia, South Carolina, is an armchair made for the Royal Governor’s ceremonial use in the first State House. The chair survived a disastrous fire and is a rare example of an unrepresented period of Charleston’s chair-making. Some of the chair’s emblems are often seen on furniture from the Albermarle region of North Carolina.
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38293
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How he fulfills the roles of preservationist and collector: amassing items such as 18th-century Kentucky longrifles, 19th-century salt-glaze pottery, furniture from the 18th century; amassing stories of the people who made these items. In the process, he saves the items and their history, almost palpable beneath their materials, not for just his own pleasure or fulfillment. The Museum of Early Southern Decorative Arts and individuals who share his twin passions may have such item available for generations to come.
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Our State (NoCar F 251 S77), Vol. 78 Issue 11, Apr 2011, p128-130, 132, 134-135 Periodical Website
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16225
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The state commissioned Thomas Constantine to design for the North Carolina State House. A fire destroyed the state house on June 21, 1831 and only the Senate Speaker's Chair and a portrait of George Washington survived. Based on Constantine's drawings, Cornelius J. Tooker, a Fayetteville cabinetmaker, built the chair.
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27569
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For some time scholars believed that the use of white pine in early furniture indicated northern manufacture, since white pine does not grow along the southern coast. However, many pieces of southern manufacture display white pine as a secondary wood. North Carolina merchants often used white pine because it was easier and cheaper to import lumber by water than to face the difficulties of cutting local trees.
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