Archive Entry
Redeeming Victorian Gimcrackery, June 19, 1926
Publication
Welsey Sherwood Bessell, "Redeeming Victorian Gimcrackery: How Even the Very Ugly House May Achieve Some Semblance of Beauty," Garden & Home Builder, June 1926, p. 345-346.
Article by architect Wesley Sherwood Bessell critical of the "gimcrackery" he attributes to Victorian style architecture in favor of the Colonial style. Among the examples of before (ugly) and after views is the home of Mrs. George E. Hull, 108 Forest Drive, Short Hills.
George E. Hull moved to Short Hills in 1910 and was a realtor with Hartshorn Estates until 1941. He died in September 1971.
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