Greenans Cottage

Greenans Cottage Decorative Arts and Antiques At Greenans excellence is ageless. Presenting exemplary antiques from every era. Located in Virginia (USA) the Old Dominion.

USA Customers: Save 10% with Code: SimpleGifts Nov.9-19 FREE Continental USA UPS Shipping Code SHIPGREEN
11/11/2023

USA Customers: Save 10% with Code: SimpleGifts Nov.9-19

FREE Continental USA UPS Shipping Code SHIPGREEN

The Most Prized PossessionThis weekend my sisters and cousins sifted thru photographs of our family from World War I, th...
11/06/2023

The Most Prized Possession

This weekend my sisters and cousins sifted thru photographs of our family from World War I, the Roaring 20s, the Great Depression, World War 2, Korea and Vietnam.

After pondering and discussing the lives of our forebears, my 93 y.o. mother showed us one of her most prized possessions.

As a 14 y.o. girl, she awakened Wednesday morning August 15, 1945, to learn that peace was declared in the South Pacific August 14th. She kept this copy of the Philadelphia Inquirer throughout her entire life and it even survived a house fire.

PEACE

I wish peace not just for my family and neighbors, but for you - your family and neighbors and all families across this world.

Let us all be instruments of peace.

From "Fashioning an Empire: Safavid Textiles From the Museum of Islamic Art, Doha", Smithsonian Arthur M. Sackler Galler...
02/20/2022

From "Fashioning an Empire: Safavid Textiles From the Museum of Islamic Art, Doha", Smithsonian Arthur M. Sackler Gallery, National Mall, DC.

Silk brocade with metal-wrapped threads. Iran, Safavid Period 1700-1722

01/22/2022

The Decorative Arts Trust - thank you for highlighting Milwaukee’s Cyril Colnik and Dan Nauman in your recent magazine for masterful crafting in iron. Villa Terrace Decorative Arts Museum

01/11/2022

King Arthur had Hengroen, Richard the Lionheart had too many to name and Richard III would have exchanged his kingdom for one: if you were a warrior knight in t

12/25/2021

The world’s largest ever hoard of Iron Age coins has been bought from the Queen by the island of Jersey for £4 million using funds retrieved from criminals.The

02/13/2021

The Historic Garden Week Eastern Itinerary includes tours full of gardens, water views and history. For details and online tickets for each tour go to https://www.vagardenweek.org/main/tours Tickets are only available online with limited availability.
Photo credits: Devin Reed, Nancy Saputo. Weston Hall, Pamela Henefin

01/08/2021

The Louvre museum in Paris - home to the Mona Lisa and other world famous works of art - suffered a 72 percent drop in visitors in 2020 compared to 2019, as a result of the COVID crisis.

12/22/2020

The centre was built at a cost of €42 million to contain what one expert called “the memory of humanity” – 250,000 paintings, drawings, statues and other objects from across the world and spanning

11/29/2020

Tickets for all 30 Historic Garden Week 2021 tours will be available on January 22 at our website, VAGardenWeek.org, only. To achieve a touchless experience, to guarantee that all purchasers agree to the terms and conditions outlined during the ticketing process, and to effectively manage the myriad of ticketing options that will be offered in 2021, there will be no Advance Ticket locations for any tours statewide, and no State Passes. To ensure adequate social distancing, tickets will sell out at the capacity each tour team will determine is best for their particular tour. Many of our most popular tours will offer only timed tickets.

11/22/2020

Colonial building techniques are revealed in a house in Arlington and one in Alexandria.

10/24/2020

🎶 "The world turned upside down..." 🎶

On this day in 1781, the British officially surrendered to the Continental Army led by General George Washington and the French Army led by Comte de Rochambeau following the Siege of Yorktown.

German-born Continental Artillery officer Sebastian Bauman served at the Siege of Yorktown and created this map from his measurements of the battlefield taken three days after the British Army’s surrender. Bauman distributed copies of the map – engraved and published in Philadelphia in 1782 – to his fellow officers encamped in the Hudson Highlands to show off his skills and celebrate the victory. In October 1782, while he was encamped at West Point, Bauman sent a copy to General William Heath at Verplanck’s Point.

One of the copies of Bauman's map is in our collection thanks to a gift from the Landenberger Family Foundation and The Acorn Foundation Fund for History in Memory of Alexander Orr Vietor.

Learn more on your next visit: bit.ly/3fuxVLT

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