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Object Name

chair

cushion

Title

wicker sun room chair

Dates

Estimated Date Made, 1900-1930, Chair came from the sun room at1880 Gaylord St., which was added to the house around 1924. Haywood-Wakefield did not manufacture the Bar Harbor wicker chair after 1930, so if this chair can be positively identified as having been made by H-W, it dates no later than that. The chair may have been used prior to 1924 on the front porch of the house, predating the 1924 addition.

Description

Bar Harbor style wicker armchair with reversible seat and back cushions.

Provenance

Chair came from the sun room on the southeast corner of the Pearce-McAllister Cottage at1880 Gaylord Street.
Chair has no label or tag, but most closely resembles the Bar Harbor chair found on linemade by might have been made by the Heywood-Wakefield Company.
The sun room was an addition to the house in or after 1924 when Mrs. McAllister remodeled the first floor. The Bar Harbor style chair may have been purchased at that time, but could also have been used earlier on the house's front porch. It might also have been furniture brought from the McAllister's Colorado Springs house at 1231 N. Nevada Avenue.

Used

McAllister, Phebe Hallock Ketcham, 1872-1944

Pearce-McAllister Cottage (Denver, Colo.)

Sun Room

Provenience

.A Chair
.B seat cushion
.C back cushion

Object ID

PM.80.4.1

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