Conservation Update: Parlor Project Begins in Earnest

Though the methodology is very similar to the recent project in the Reception Suite, finding space within the house for the Parlor’s furnishings, (including the massive canvas painting, Jacob’s Dream by Luther Terry), has proven to be the most challenging undertaking of the project thus far. All furnishings have remained in the house as opposed to off-site storage, which is preferred as these fragile items have been acclimatized to the Mansion’s conditions over many decades. Conservator Siobhan Lindsay postulates the preparation of this project is “probably the biggest upheaval within the Mansion since the last of the Libby family moved out in 1929.”