Irene's Bedroom Mural (& missing Zuber wallpaper)

Painting

Hammond Castle Museum

SCRB-5 (25a) Irene's bedroom, ca 1930s

Name/Title

Irene's Bedroom Mural (& missing Zuber wallpaper)

Entry/Object ID

NN018

Description

Scenic mural along lower walls in Irene's bedroom Originally matched with scenic Zuber Terrestial Zones wall paper brought over from bungalow (now gone) "Painted balustrade designed to substitute for the missing wallpaper dado normally accompanying Zuber’s Les Zones Terrestres French scenic wallpaper. The Zuber wallpaper, minus its dado, was first installed in JHHJr’s bedroom at the Bungalow between 1918 and 1919. Photographed in situ by Thomas Marr in 1920 and mentioned in 1922 North Shore Breeze. Citations: “The Bungalow on the Gloucester Estate of John Hays Hammond, Jr.,” Boston Sunday Herald, 14 November 1920: 74; Thomas Marr Photographs, JJHH, Jr., Bedroom, Bungalow (Negative Nos. 22472 & 22474), Bungalow Point Radio Photo Album, 1923-1929, Hammond Papers, HCM. [2025 J Hayden]"

Acquisition

Accession

NN018

Lexicon

Nomenclature 4.0

Nomenclature Primary Object Term

Mural

Nomenclature Class

Art

Nomenclature Category

Category 08: Communication Objects

General Notes

Note Type

2025 P Hayden HCM-Sleeper Objects List

Note Type

1922-10-20 North Shore Breeze-House Built around Organ (bungalow furnishings)