The Closet, Secret Staircase, and the Hidden Hearth: A Queer History of the House of the Seven Gables

Joseph Everett Chandler, the architect who restored The House of the Seven Gables for Caroline Emmerton, was an early historian of American architecture. He restored dozens of other important buildings that became museums, including the Paul Revere House and the Old State House in Boston, the Royall House in Medford, the Sargent-Murray-Gilman House in Gloucester, and the Stevens-Coolidge House and Gardens in North Andover. Chandler named his Sudbury house Manalone, and his immediate circle of colleagues and clients included dozens of queer men and independent women. His diaries reveal their close friendships, rivalries, and tragedies.   > Click here to register <   About the Presenter Timothy Orwig is an architectural historian who teaches at Boston College and UMASS Lowell. He earned an MA in Preservation Studies and PhD in American and New England Studies at Boston University, where his dissertation documented the previously little-known career of Chandler. Orwig is the author of books and articles on New England architecture, as well as two dozen nominations to the National Register of Historic Places.