A Garret is a "top-floor or attic room, especially a small dismal one." Indeed, only a "Servants Bed," a mattress or pallet used directly on the floor valued at 1 pound ten shillings, furnished the "Middle Room" under the roof at Stenton in 1752. The listing of only a bed on the James Logan estate inventory suggests that Stenton's enslaved workers did little more than undress, sleep, and re-dress for the next day in the top of the house. Their time was entirely spent at work in...

On June 10, Laura Keim led a tour of Stenton's Blue Lodging Room on Facebook LIVE. A recording of the tour is available below and on Youtube .

Laura Keim presented "Relics of the Olden Time: John Fanning Watson and Material Memorials of Early Philadelphia" at the invitation of The Philadelphia Club’s Program Committee. In the recorded PowerPoint presentation, Laura discusses objects associated with noted antiquarian and annalist, John Fanning Watson (1779-1860) and the origins of the Colonial Revival in the 1820s. Her slides include objects and manuscripts from the collections of Stenton, Wyck, Winterthur, the Germantown Historical...