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 The House Museum built around a central courtyard, is the former summer home of Caramoor's founders Lucie Bigelow and Walter Tower Rosen. Resembling a Mediterranean villa, the House Museum was designed by Walter Rosen, with assistance from the architect Christian Rosborg, and was built between 1929 and 1939 to showcase the collection the Rosens had amassed through the years: Renaissance, 18th century, and Eastern art objects and furnishings - tapestries, sculpture, paintings, textiles, furniture, exquisite wall coverings, stained glass, Urbino Maiolica, and a major jade collection. Entire rooms were imported from European palaces and country manors.
I would like our blood and our lives to be the seed of a beautiful thing that many people would be happier for.
~ Lucie Bigelow Rosen
The docent-led tour takes the visitors back to another place in another time. Walter and Lucie Rosen built the estate as their
summer home in the early part of the twentieth century to accomodate their vast collection of Asian and European art and furnishings: tapestries, paintings, sculpture, textiles, stained glass, furniture, cloisonné and a major jade collection. Caramoor is one of five famous mansions in the United States that incorporate entire rooms from European villas and palaces. The House Museum is a jewel awaiting your visit.
The House Museum will re-open May 3rd for tours Wednesday to Sunday from 1:00pm to 3:00pm, with the last tour at 2:00pm. Tours by appointment only.
Tour price (including exhibition): $10.00; children under 16 free
2008 EXHIBITION
MAY 17 Preview Party of The 2008 Maiolica Exhibition
MAY 18 MAIOLICA EXHIBITION OPENS
For more information please call the House Museum at 914.232.5035 X221.
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