Furniture- Tables, Chairs, Cases Trunks, & Cabinets
Title
Furniture- Tables, Chairs, Cases Trunks, & Cabinets
Description
This collection focuses on items built mainly from wood or from various forms of material that were fashioned into furniture. The furniture can be decorative, mixed use, or used often for an everyday function. Some can also be large tools or rudimentary machines. Common examples in this collection are: tables, chairs, trunks, hutches, cabinets, cases, beds, and spinning wheels.
Collection Items
Farmington NH School Hand Constructed Settee
Hand made, wooden settee from one of the early Farmington, NH schools. The seat flips up and reveals storage in the lower portions of the settee. Used at the Pine Bluff Cottage (Alton Bay, Lake Winnipesaukee) for many decades. Formerly owned by S.S.…
Henry Wilson-Commissioned Child's Rocking Chair
Jeff Durell of Barrington has loaned this item to the Farmington Historical Society for viewing and we now have digital photos of the chair that we will keep in the online museum. It is a small child's rocking chair, purportedly commissioned for…