Revisit Your Happy Place
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Photo/Jickie Torres
Revisit Your Happy Place EACH OF US HAS A HAPPY PLACE TUCKED AWAY IN OUR MEMORIES. For me, one such place is a Victorian villa in Oxford, England, a five minutes’ walk up Park Street from Keble College’s Neo-Gothic spires. Built in the mid-1800s to house dons and their families, the homes north of the college represent residential Neo-Gothic at its best: lofty red-brick façades with white stone turrets and tracery windows. Behind those windows lived about 30 students, with whom I not only shared a house, but a problem: How would I ever leave my Victorian home away from home? Like Sebastian Flyte in Evelyn Waugh’s Brideshead Revisited, I felt that, “I should like to bury something precious in every place where I’ve been happy and then…I could come back and dig it up and remember.” It’s a common experience. Legendary authors Nathaniel Hawthorne and Edith Wharton shared this sentiment about their respective Massachusetts homes. During a spell abroad, Hawthorne missed his home so much that he shipped a load of saplings across the Atlantic to be planted in his yard—trees that still stand today (see page 61). Similarly, after leaving The Mount in 1911, Wharton felt herself forever under its “blessed influence” (see pages 50-57). Perhaps you’ve felt the same. Like Hawthorne and Wharton, you feel encompassed by the cares of home even when far away. Maybe, like two homeowners in this issue, you’ve wandered so far from home that you’ve circled back to your front door (see pages 22-41). Or possibly the Victorian home you love is a respectfully restored bed-and-breakfast in a historic town (see pages 58-63). No matter where you’ve buried happy memories, consider returning this summer, digging them up and remembering. Like the old homes we love, the “blessed influence” of those memories is worth preserving.
Cheers,
SUMMER 2013 • Volume 32, Issue 2
EDITORIAL
Editorial Director: Jacqueline deMontravel Editor: Elaine K. Phillips Managing Editor: Meryl Schoenbaum Art Director: John Bernikow
CONTRIBUTORS
Anne Armstrong; Melinda Graham; Eric Hollenbeck; Barbara Johnson, Ph.D.; Suzanne Leder; Matt Mazanek; Emma J. Page; Sarah Yoon.
ADVERTISING
Gabe Frimmel - Ad Sales Director (714) 200-1930 - [email protected] Donna Silva Norris - Senior Account Executive (714) 200-1933 Brandon Sands - Account Executive (714 200-1982 Shanda Ogas - Account Executive (714) 200-1959 Eric Gomez - Ad Traffic Coordinator John Cabral: Creative Graphic Designer
OPERATIONS
Gus Alonzo: Newsstand Sales & Marketing Manager Celia Merriday: Newsstand Analyst Amit Sharma: Business Analytics Manager Mohit Patel: Newsstand & Production Analyst Alberto Chavez: Senior Logistics & Facilities Manager
EDITORIAL, PRODUCTION & SALES OFFICE 22840 Savi Ranch Pkwy., Suite 200, Yorba Linda, CA 92887 (714) 939-9991 www.victorianhomesmag.com VICTORIAN HOMES (ISSN 0744-415X) Volume 32, Issue 2 is published quarterly, Spring, Summer, Fall and Winter, by Beckett Media, LLC, 22840 Savi Ranch Pkwy., Suite 200, Yorba Linda, CA 92887. Periodical postage paid at Anaheim, CA, and additional mailing offices. POSTMASTER: send address changes to Victorian Homes c/o Beckett Media, 5430 LBJ Freeway, Ste 1200 Dallas, TX 75240. © 2013 by Beckett Media, LLC. All rights reserved. Reproduction of any material from this issue in whole or in part is strictly prohibited. GST #855050365RT001 Canada Post: Publications Mail Agreement #40612608 Return undeliverable Canadian addresses to: PITNEY BOWES, INC. P.O. Box 25542, London, ON N6C 6B2.
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Photo/Jickie Torres
Revisit Your Happy Place EACH OF US HAS A HAPPY PLACE TUCKED AWAY IN OUR MEMORIES. For me, one such place is a Victorian villa in Oxford, England, a five minutes’ walk up Park Street from Keble College’s Neo-Gothic spires. Built in the mid-1800s to house dons and their families, the homes north of the college represent residential Neo-Gothic at its best: lofty red-brick façades with white stone turrets and tracery windows. Behind those windows lived about 30 students, with whom I not only shared a house, but a problem: How would I ever leave my Victorian home away from home? Like Sebastian Flyte in Evelyn Waugh’s Brideshead Revisited, I felt that, “I should like to bury something precious in every place where I’ve been happy and then…I could come back and dig it up and remember.” It’s a common experience. Legendary authors Nathaniel Hawthorne and Edith Wharton shared this sentiment about their respective Massachusetts homes. During a spell abroad, Hawthorne missed his home so much that he shipped a load of saplings across the Atlantic to be planted in his yard—trees that still stand today (see page 61). Similarly, after leaving The Mount in 1911, Wharton felt herself forever under its “blessed influence” (see pages 50-57). Perhaps you’ve felt the same. Like Hawthorne and Wharton, you feel encompassed by the cares of home even when far away. Maybe, like two homeowners in this issue, you’ve wandered so far from home that you’ve circled back to your front door (see pages 22-41). Or possibly the Victorian home you love is a respectfully restored bed-and-breakfast in a historic town (see pages 58-63). No matter where you’ve buried happy memories, consider returning this summer, digging them up and remembering. Like the old homes we love, the “blessed influence” of those memories is worth preserving.
Cheers,
SUMMER 2013 • Volume 32, Issue 2
EDITORIAL
Editorial Director: Jacqueline deMontravel Editor: Elaine K. Phillips Managing Editor: Meryl Schoenbaum Art Director: John Bernikow
CONTRIBUTORS
Anne Armstrong; Melinda Graham; Eric Hollenbeck; Barbara Johnson, Ph.D.; Suzanne Leder; Matt Mazanek; Emma J. Page; Sarah Yoon.
ADVERTISING
Gabe Frimmel - Ad Sales Director (714) 200-1930 - [email protected] Donna Silva Norris - Senior Account Executive (714) 200-1933 Brandon Sands - Account Executive (714 200-1982 Shanda Ogas - Account Executive (714) 200-1959 Eric Gomez - Ad Traffic Coordinator John Cabral: Creative Graphic Designer
OPERATIONS
Gus Alonzo: Newsstand Sales & Marketing Manager Celia Merriday: Newsstand Analyst Amit Sharma: Business Analytics Manager Mohit Patel: Newsstand & Production Analyst Alberto Chavez: Senior Logistics & Facilities Manager
EDITORIAL, PRODUCTION & SALES OFFICE 22840 Savi Ranch Pkwy., Suite 200, Yorba Linda, CA 92887 (714) 939-9991 www.victorianhomesmag.com VICTORIAN HOMES (ISSN 0744-415X) Volume 32, Issue 2 is published quarterly, Spring, Summer, Fall and Winter, by Beckett Media, LLC, 22840 Savi Ranch Pkwy., Suite 200, Yorba Linda, CA 92887. Periodical postage paid at Anaheim, CA, and additional mailing offices. POSTMASTER: send address changes to Victorian Homes c/o Beckett Media, 5430 LBJ Freeway, Ste 1200 Dallas, TX 75240. © 2013 by Beckett Media, LLC. All rights reserved. Reproduction of any material from this issue in whole or in part is strictly prohibited. GST #855050365RT001 Canada Post: Publications Mail Agreement #40612608 Return undeliverable Canadian addresses to: PITNEY BOWES, INC. P.O. Box 25542, London, ON N6C 6B2.
CUSTOMER SERVICE
Beckett Media, LLC 4635 Mc Ewen Road. Dallas, TX 75244
SUBSCRIPTIONS, ADDRESS CHANGES, RENEWALS, MISSING OR DAMAGED COPIES (800) 764-6278 (239) 653-0225 Foreign Inquiries [email protected] [email protected] BACK ISSUES www.engagedmediamags.com BOOKS, MERCHANDISE, REPRINTS (239) 280-2380 DEALER SALES (239) 280-2380 LETTERS TO THE EDITOR, NEW PRODUCTS OR TO CONTRIBUTE A STORY OR PHOTO [email protected] SUBSCRIPTION RATES $14.95/1 year, $24.95/2 years. Foreign $24.95/1 yr, $44.95/2 yrs, payable in US funds. Single copy price is $5.99. Please allow 6 to 8 weeks for new subscriptions to begin.
BECKETT MEDIA, LLC
Nick Singh: Executive Director Erin Masercola: Business Unit Editorial Director Jen Kahn: Circulation Director
Elaine K. Phillips [email protected]
This magazine is purchased by the buyer with the understanding that information presented is from various sources from which there can be no warranty or responsibility by Beckett Media, LLC as to the legality, completeness or technical accuracy. GST #855050365RT001 Canada Post: Publications Mail Agreement #40612608 Return undeliverable Canadian addresses to: PITNEY BOWES, INC. P.O. Box 25542, London, ON N6C 6B2.
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