Word: claverton
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Judkyn and Manhattan Psychiatrist Dallas Pratt-have been spending summers in Britain, and each year found the British as dense about the U.S. as the year before. In 1956 Pratt set up the Halcyon Foundation to endow a museum, and Judkyn found the site. It was Bath's Claverton Manor, designed by George IV's architect, Sir Jeffry Wyatville...
...hurled out the window. Next come two connecting rooms from a house in Lee, N.H.-a kitchen-living room and a "borning" or "measles" room with a tiny cradle. From then on, the Americans began to indulge themselves. An 1825 Greek Revival room from Manhattan is as elegant as Claverton Manor itself. On the other hand, the museum offers a country store with period posters ("SOCIAL DANCE," "AUCTION! !") and gingerbread...
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