inside the museum exhibits in the sara sweet house
Parlor
Kerosene
lamp – has its original painted shade and prisms. It is
original to the house.
Hand-made
Foot Stool – found in the house.
Two
late-Victorian Chairs – once covered in green velvet.
They were retied and recovered.
Late-Victorian
Fainting Couch – originally green velvet. It had to have
its springs retied and upholstery redone.
Three
antimascassers – crocheted by an elderly Boalsburg resident
who was living at Centre Crest. Crocheting these gave her a
purpose.
Victorian
Chair – a gift from a woman who believed the museum needed
her grandmother’s chair. It has quite remarkable carvings
of a women’s heads.
Two-Victorian
Side Chairs – one read and one green; a gift to the Museum.
Child’s Rocker – found in the house. Belonged to
Sara Meyers Sweet and her two sisters, Virginia and Naomi, who
grew up in this house in the late 1800’s.
The
“Virginia” Doll – belonged to Virginia Meyers.
Amber Keene found it on a trash heap. She cleaned it up and
made some new clothes. The stockings are original. She and her
granddaughter gave it to the Museum.
Parlor
Table – bought for the museum by Ruth Corter.
Small
Molded Dog – from the Victorian period.
Pictures
Boalsburg
Diamond – Painting by Vincent Carducci.
Photo
of William “Billy” Meyers
Photo
of Mrs. William “Billy” Meyers and daughter, Naomi.
Local
Doctor (Dr. Kidder) on his horse - A “painted” photo.
Blue
Spring Farm – A “painted” photo.
Dining
Room
Drop
leaf table – from the Hess/Segner House; early 1800’s.
There is some nice inlay on the legs.
Oak
Sideboard – from the late 19th century or early 20th century
and is from the William Tennis House.
Two
Victorian “Fancy Chairs” – Bull’s Eye
with cane seat.
Coffee
Server – mid-1800’s.
Silver
Place Setting – from the Billy Meyer’s home.
Four-Windsor
Chairs – on loan as is the Ceiling Candelabra.
Cuckoo
Clock – from Bavaria, on loan and is decorated in Bavarian
(Farmers’) Art.
Kitchen
Jelly
Cupboard and Dough Tray – from Boalsburg.
Harvest
Table – has leather pulls for the drop leaf.
Upstairs
There are marble tops on the bureau and wash stand of the painted
bedroom suite.
The cradle was hand-made over 150 years ago and came from the Myers’ home.
The rope bed was made in Boalsburg from tulip wood (poplar) and
painted to look like mahogany.
The sewing machine and cover is early Singer.
Hitch Cock Painted Chair.
School
Room
The teacher’s desk and table were originally in the Boalsburg
School.
