Word: balisciano
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...German bomb. Today, the structure bears a Grade I listing, Britain's highest designation for historic buildings. A combination of heritage funds, corporate donors and private benefactors paid for the $6 million rehabilitation. "There is not a single level corner in this house," director Márcia Balisciano says. But she points proudly to restored features like the staircase and paneling, now painted its original pale green color, identified through examination of old paint layers. The house has 14 fireplaces, and in the first-floor parlor's, restorers found an opening for a Franklin stove, which is installed away from...
...unexploded World War II German bomb. Today, the structure bears a Grade I listing, Britain's highest designation for historic buildings. A combination of heritage funds, corporate donors and private benefactors paid for the $6 million rehabilitation. "There is not a single level corner in this house,'' director M?rcia Balisciano says. But she points proudly to restored features like the paneling, now painted its original pale green color, identified through examination of old paint layers...
...Visitors can take a narrated multimedia tour through the basement and first two floors. "This is not a museum with stuff behind glass and people peering over the red ropes,'' Balisciano says, citing the accompanying sound-and-light show that recaps Franklin's London years. After three centuries, the house in which he spent them has been reinvented. benjaminfranklinhouse.org
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