Name/Title
Laying Carpet in Gallagher House, c. 1986Entry/Object ID
1987-006.058Description
Laying Carpet in Gallagher House, c. 1986. This image shows a man down on all fours in a room in the Gallagher House. The man has curly brownish-gray hair and a mustache. He is wearing a white, yellow and blue plaid shirt with the sleeves rolled up just below the elbows, blue jeans and gray and white tennis shoes. A large piece of mottled brown carpet is laid on the floor. A large portion of the carpet on the right-hand half of the image is folded over, showing the bottom side. The man is kneeling on the right-side-up portion of the carpet and his hands are on the upside-down portion. The room is wood paneled with white trim.
Written in the lower-right corner of the reverse side of this photograph is the accession number.
The Gallagher House was built in either late 1896 or early 1897 at what later became the intersection of Carpenter Road and Pacific Avenue in Lacey, Washington, most likely by William B. Chamberlin. By 1900, the home had been repossessed by Alameda Rowe, the original owner of the land on which the home was built. Rowe turned the house and the adjoining property over to relatives in 1902, who then sold the house and property to Cornelius and Anna Gallagher in 1908. The Gallaghers lived in the home until Cornelius passed away in 1950. The house then changed hands to Harold and Millie Crass, who then sold it to Abner and Hazel Hukee in 1959. In 1985, the house was donated to the Lacey Historical Society, who moved the house to a piece of property adjacent to the Lacey Museum on Lacey Street. The house was subsequently rented out by the Lacey Historical Society until it was sold to a private buyer in 2018.Made/Created
Date made
1985 - 1987Place
City
LaceyCounty
ThurstonState/Province
WashingtonCountry
United StatesContinent
North AmericaNotes
Medium: Photographic Paper/Photographic EmulsionLexicon
Search Terms
People, Houses, Domestic Life/Furnishings, Gallagher House, Carpeting
