Paul Revere House Wallpaper

Object/Artifact

Hammond Castle Museum

Name/Title

Paul Revere House Wallpaper

Entry/Object ID

NN020

Description

Purple & silver architectural wallpaper once hung in upper colonial guest. Same paper as once hung in Hanry Davis Sleeper's Beauport Pieces now in storage and sample on display "Paul Revere House reproduction wallpaper, copied from the original by Thomas Strahan and Company of Chelsea, Massachusetts, on behalf of the Paul Revere House Association and used for its 1906-1908 restoration. Subsequently marketed by Strahan and Company and used extensively by Henry Davis Sleeper, beginning with Beauport in the Chapel Chamber (1911), and later for many of his clients. The presence of the paper in the castle suggests a strong likelihood that Sleeper was involved in supplying the material to Hammond. Citations: “In Old Paul Revere House, Boston Globe, 2 March 1908: 14; “Paul Revere House Opened,” Boston Globe, 19 April 1908: 4; Mary Bronson Hartt, “The Woman’s Boston,” Boston Evening Transcript, 20 June 1908: 2; Nancy McClelland, Historic Wallpapers, J. P. Lippincott Company, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 1924, p. 352-352; Thomas Strahan & Company, Album of Colonial Reproductions, 1938, Pattern No. 278, Historic New England; Richard Nylander, Elizabeth Redmond, and Penny J. Sander, Wallpapers in New England, Society for the Preservation of New England Antiquities, Boston, 1986, p. 269-270. [2025 J Hayden]"

Acquisition

Accession

NN020

Lexicon

Nomenclature 4.0

Nomenclature Secondary Object Term

Wallpaper

Nomenclature Primary Object Term

Covering, Wall

Nomenclature Sub-Class

Surface Elements

Nomenclature Class

Building Components

Nomenclature Category

Category 01: Built Environment Objects

General Notes

Note Type

2025 P Hayden HCM-Sleeper Objects List

Note Type

HNE-SPNEA Paul Revere wallpaper info