Rosslyn Redux

Tag: Victorian Architecture

  • Rosslyn Featured in Old House Journal

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    Geo Davis
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    Exactly three years ago on June 3, 2015, Old House Journal published an article about Rosslyn. Time for a flashback! Regina Cole’s story and Carolyn Bates’s photographs are entitled, “Beguiled into Stewardship“, and you can find their original article here. (Note: the print edition and the online edition differ slightly.) If you’re unfamiliar with Old House Journal, —…

  • Reawakening Rosslyn

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    Geo Davis
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    “Rather than trying to coerce the house to do something new, we tried to reawaken it.” (New England Home) In “Taking the Long View” Paula M. Bodah refers to the renovation of a Victorian house near Boston, Massachusetts in unusually anthropomorphic terms. Reawaken? Since when do houses sleep? Despite the unfamiliar reference, Bodah’s terminology is…