As we tour this Tynietoy Town House, you will notice that the rooms had been papered at one time and the owner decided to leave them in place.

The wing on the Town House is slightly smaller than the wing on the Mansion. We have the kitchen on the first floor and the nursery

on the second floor. The kitchen appears to have the dark blue kitchen sink on the back wall with the matching oval butcher block table.

The white kitchen chair is next to the table and the rare double washtubs are set off to the side outside the kitchen. A nice grouping is

the laundry basket and scrub board, the mangle and ironing board help to accessorize the room. A great Peggity doll stands next to the table too.

 

The Tynietoy nursery on the second floor looks complete! It has the Tynietoy crib in the corner,

the chest of drawers and the folding screen with ducks, the table and matching chairs – all in aqua! The adult

rocker is present, perhaps to rock a young child to sleep! The two pink carriages are a nice touch, along with the little dolls and toys.

 

 

Here is the dining room, just off the kitchen. The Tynietoy sideboard on the
back wall certainly displays the knife boxes well! This is an item coveted
by collectors and so difficult to locate a pair to buy! The Gov. Winthrop
desk is on the side wall and has so many accessories with letters, photos
and even a set of keys! The round Sheraton table has a teaset all set up on
the table! There are four Chippendale chairs with red seats lined up around
the table! The Terry clock on the mantle is flanked by candlesticks with the
slim candles. The corner cupboard displays the early Bristol glass in white
with red decoration. On the side wall is a card table which can be opened so
that one side is displayed against the wall. The rectangular tilt top table
is set up against the wall and placed in an upward position to save space.
Fancy pewter/like sconces from Germany are mounted on the wall above with a
picture framed in the center.

 

 

This is the master bedroom on the second floor. The focal point is the canopy bed which is draped in a gray flowered fabric

with some nice needlework pillows. Then we see another piece lying on the bed…a Tynietoy bed warmer! We don’t see

this accessory very often.  Around the round tilt top table at the foot of the bed are three wonderful black Windsor chairs!

And to tie it all together is a black wing chair! The accessories on the table are wonderful- jewelry, a camera, shopping bags and a

purse. In the back right corner of the room is a lovely Tynietoy table lamp on a lowboy.

 

I think the radiator and portraits on the wall certainly add to the furnishings. The doll sitting on one of the black

Windsors is a Tynietoy cloth doll.  I saw these dolls for the first time at a Tynietoy meeting in Lancaster,

MA at Herb Hosmer’s Toy Cupboard Museum. Frances Greensport, a long time collector of Tynietoy,

had purchased a fairly large collection of these dolls. I really don’t think I had seen much written on them until an

article appeared in Antique Doll Collector  by Judith Armitstead. We are familiar with the wooden Peggity dolls made by Tynietoy,

but it is felt that the cloth dolls were made earlier than the wooden dolls.

(Note: I would like to hear from other collectors if you have some information to share on these dolls).

 

We are going to feature the front hall that would be at the entrance to the house. Right away, the umbrella

stand at the foot of the stairs certainly stands out with its red barrel stand with painted wooden umbrellas.

We can see the black gentleman’s umbrella, the lady’s red umbrella and a cane! Then up against the staircase is

a set of golf clubs in the golf bag! A great accessory made around the time of Tynietoy. There is a blue Hepplewhyte

chair with a green seat (you can tell by the curve in the front of the seat) and a Sheraton chair with an aqua background

with pink roses. (again this is identified by the straight edge on the seat). Between the two chairs is a card table

displaying a brass base lamp and shade. The little dish on the side almost looks like there are small Christmas ornaments

 lying in it. The grandfather’s clock stands  in the back corner  and on that wall are two oval gold framed paintings that

we cannot see, but are probably made by Tynietoy. We can’t forget to mentioned the little wooden dog painted in

brown and black. As we go up the stairs, we can view two more paintings on the left. Lastly, I’d like to point out again

that New England Town Houses have  the outlined drawing of the doorway’s molding around each door in a

more elaborate design on the first floor entrance.

 

 

We are on the second floor hallway! We can see the Palladian window in the background and the staircase railing that appears in

wooden sections instead of turned posts. A great place to have a highboy and a floor lamp with historical dates on the lamp shade.

A Mt. Vernon settee is found on the opposite wall with a little boy dressed to go outdoors. There is a telephone table back in

the corner with a Tynietoy telephone book! A special accessory is next to the settee, a holder for magazines and newspapers!!

A dog and gramophone appear on the floor with a Tynietoy banjo clock hanging on the wall!

 

 

The toy room is on the third floor of the New England Town House. The little houses are made of light card and

are perfect as miniature dolls’ houses and the small miniature kitchen is great! Doll carriages, old trunks, a crystal set

(an early radio), sewing machine on top of a sewing table and two rush seat Tynietoy chairs are a reminder of what we

gather to save. The tiny toys and dolls are certainly plentiful for all the children to enjoy!

 

We are about to tour the parlor, a room just filled with special pieces of Tynietoy. My eyes go right to the Sheraton chairs of yellow stripes

and flowers, but what is amazing is the matching Hepplewhyte settee! The tilt top table in the center of the room displays the Limoges teaset so well.

To the left is the dark blue sofa with painted flowers too! The pictures on the wall appear to be Tynietoy, but I would have

to see them up close. The oval firescreen with its aqua background and painted rose lends itself to the theme of “flowers” in the room.

Bookcases on the back wall are spaced for a spinet to be in front of them. Lovely porcelain objects along with figurines create a warm atmosphere.

 

 

A tour of the Nantucket Cottage- built by Mel Davey. This house is modeled after the original one built in the 1920’s.

I had met Mel many times as he attended the Tynietoy Preservation Society meetings at Herb Hosmer’s in Lancaster, MA. Mel always signed his work and

dated it so as not to get it confused with the original Tynietoy pieces. Mel actually worked for the Tynietoy company in Providence, RI. As I look at the

cottage, it does remind one of the houses on Nantucket Island, just off the Massachusetts coastline. The houses on the island were actually shingled

but later began to turn a soft gray from the mist of the salty ocean air. We also can recall the small gardens around the houses with picket fences.

The Nantucket cottage is painted gray with hollyhocks planted near the doorways. We will need to see all the sides to view how each side is differently constructed.

You are going to see a widow’s walk on top of the roof which was found on many of the Nantucket houses where the wife of the sea captain

would stand looking for her husband’s ship to dock in the harbor.

 

 

This photo shows the other side of the house with the picket fence and the hollyhocks.

We can also see the Tynietoy sundial inside the fence area and the garden bench near the entrance.

This photo shows how the widow’s walk is constructed too!

The yard also has a birdhouse and a flower box at the window!