OBJECT SPOTLIGHT BLOG
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NICHOLS HOUSE MUSEUM PUBLICATIONS
Cunningham, Laura and Rosemary Foy. Their Objects, Their Stories: The Nichols Women as Collectors, 1870-1960. Edited by Laura Cunningham. Nichols House Museum: 2018.
Welty, Emma. Makers’ Marks: Art, Craft, and the Fiber of Change. Edited by Emma Welty. Nichols House Museum: 2017.
Download e-Catalog. First prize, New England Museum Association Publication Award Competition for Exhibition Catalogues (budgets under $500,000).
Hutchinson, June. The Gardens of Rose Standish Nichols, 1890-1930. Compiled 2010.
Hutchinson, June. At Home on Beacon Hill. Nichols House Museum: 2011.
Shurcliff, Margaret Homer. Lively Days: Some Memoirs. Nichols House Museum: Reprinted 2011.
JULIE LINSDELL AND GEORGIA LINSDELL ENDERS FELLOWSHIP RESEARCH
Rideout, Kayli Reneé. Silver Spoons: A Social History of the Nichols Family Silver Collection. Nichols House Museum: 2021.
Tvetenstrand, Astrid. Abroad Inspirations, American Realities: European Influences on Rose Standish Nichols’s American Garden Landscape Designs. Nichols House Museum: 2019.
Webster, Madeline. Before Beacon Hill: The Nichols Family in the Warren House, 1869-1885. Nichols House Museum: 2018.
Kirby, Rachel. From Maids to Mary King: Stories and Spaces of the Nichols House Employees. Nichols House Museum: 2017.
Dimock, Maggie. Life at Mastlands: Rose Standish Nichols and the Cornish Art Colony. Nichols House Museum: 2014.
EXTERNAL RESEARCH
Mussey, Robert and Christopher Shelton. “John Penniman and the Ornamental Painting Tradition in Federal-Era Boston.” In American Furniture, edited by Luke Beckerdite. Chipstone Foundation: 2010.
Read online at Chipstone website.
Tankard, Judith B. “Rose Standish Nichols, A Proper Bostonian.” Arnoldia 59, no. 4 (1999): 25-32.
Zaczek Bermon, Corinne. “The Peaceful Gardener: Rose Standish Nichols and the Peace Movement.” Archives and Public History at UMass Boston. March 2017.
Margaret Nichols reading on the porch at Aspet, the Saint-Gaudens family's summer estate, ca. 1900. Nichols Family Photograph Collection, MHN.1.