Wallace Nutting

Indispensable reading for historians, novice antique collectors, antique connoisseurs, dealers, museums and historical societies.

Wallace Nutting was an American hero, who grew up in poverty without a father. He started his illustrious career as a Congregational minister, but was forced to retire due to ill health. Despite these hardships Wallace came to be known as the "Father of the Colonial Revival Movement."

He is best known for his monumental "Furniture Treasury", which became the Bible for every antique collector and dealer of American furniture. His collection of Pilgrim Century furniture was the finest in the country.

In this book you will learn the many facets of Wallace Nutting:

• Congregational Minister
• Photographer of hand-colored platinum prints
• Author
• Antique Collector
• Historic Preservationist
• Reproduction Furniture Maker
• Benefactor
• Lecturer

The author includes pictures of Nutting's lovely hand-colored photographs and stories of the colorists who worked for him; details behind his Colonial Chain of Picture Houses; and photographs of his reproduction furniture - treasures for any household.

David McCullough, our beloved American historian, said, "History is a story."

This is the story of Wallace Nutting.

You will learn the many facets of Wallace Nutting: Congregational Minister, Photographer of hand-colored platinum prints, Author, Antique Collector, Historic Preservationist, Reproduction Furniture Maker, Benefactor, Lecturer.

My passion for collecting Wallace Nutting pictures, books, furniture and ephemera has spanned over thirty years. My research has taken me to: - Williamsburg and Arlington National Cemetery - Wentworth Gardner House, Portsmouth, New Hampshire - Saugus Iron Works, Saugus, Massachusetts - Webb-Deane-Stevens Museum, Wethersfield, Connecticut - Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford, Connecticut - Winterthur Gardens and Museum, Winterthur, Delaware - Historic New England, Boston and Haverhill, Massachusetts In 2016 some of our pictures and furniture were included in the 100th Anniversary Exhibition titled, Wallace Nutting Preservation Pioneer at the Webb-Deane-Stevens Museum. Antiques and the Arts Weekly published my article, A Love of Collecting Wallace Nutting. I was featured in an article in the Litchfield County Times. I am a retired Registered Nurse with an OCN designation (Oncology Certified Nurse). I graduated from Naugatuck Valley Community-Technical College in Waterbury, Connecticut with an Associate's Degree in Nursing. Prior, I was a real estate broker in Danbury, Connecticut and owned my own company, Palmer Real Estate.

"She [Linda Palmer] tells a tale in a straightforward, chronological manner that is easy to read...with its numerous citations it is a steppingstone to a greater investigation for the interested reader."

Maine Antique Digest