Playing House

 As I noted in yesterday's post, the exhibit at the Brandywine Museum also includes a couple of absolutely exquisite dollhouses. Here's a look at them:

This one was owned by Sarah Cordelia Mellon Scaife and was donated to the museum by her daughter. It is not known when she acquired the dollhouse or the many objects and dolls within it. The museum dates it at about 1900.

This is just one room of the very large dollhouse that belonged to Ann Wyeth McCoy, N.C. Wyeth's daughter. Curiously, she never had a dollhouse as a child and this one was built for her by her husband in 1966, by adapting a tool shed into a nine-foot house with six rooms. When it was donated to the museum, the house was deconstructed so each of the rooms could be displayed individually (the nine-foot height of the complete building would not fit in the galleries).