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Windsor Chair #4, c.1920 | Wells-Shober Cottage | Campobello, New BrunswickDescription
Old Accession Number: 2235
One of four Windsor chairs that originally came from the Wells-Shober Cottage, Campobello, New Brunswick. From the Emery family Elm Cottage, Elm Street, Eastport, Maine. Joyce tells of her father and brother bringing a truckload of furniture from the Cottage over to Eastport. John Melby says the chair is a reproduction. Her father had once purchased the Wells-Shober Cottage including contents.
Gift of Joyce Emery Kinney, Eastport, Maine.
From: https://www.rooseveltcampobello.org/daily-programs-and-tours
Built in the late 19th century for Samuel Wells, a Boston-area lawyer and president of the Campobello Company. This cottage was acquired in 1912 by the Shober family of Philadelphia.
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