fine furniture and accessories
"The only windsors more valuable are the originals."
Frederick Duckloe, Sr.
1921-1999

Duckloe in the News

Winter 2002
MUSEUM AND SITE NEWS FROM
HISTORIC BETHLEHEM PARTNERSHIP
Duckloe Furniture Highlights Museum Store Offerings
The museum stores at the Moravian Museum, the Kemerer Museum, and the 1810 Goundie House have a cozy new look, with the addition of handcrafted furniture from Frederick Duckloe and Bros., manufacturers of fine colonial furniture since 1859. Better yet, the furniture is for sale; the Kemerer Museum, the 1810 Goundie House and the Moravian Museum stores are the only Duckloe outlets outside of the company's home in Portland, Pennsylvania.
Duckloe has made a name for itself with reproductions of the Windsor chair, the original colonial-era contribution to American furniture design.
Come to the Moravian Museum and see the Bishop White Settee, an exact replication of one of a pair at Independence National Park; a child's highchair; a child's rocking chair; a Pennsylvania side chair; a star table; and a saddle bench. The 1810 Goundie House has a tall case clock by master clockmaker Gregg Perry, a gentleman's armchair rocker, a Pennsylvania country dining room table with matching oval-backed armchairs and side chairs, milking stools, and a chief justice armchair.
The museum stores also have wonderful treasures for holiday gift-giving. Well stocked bookshelves offer Christmas in Bethlehem: A Moravian Heritage by Vangie Sweitzer; James Burnside by Eloise Bassett Miller; Snow Over Bethlehem by Katherine Milhouse; volumes I and II of The Bethlehem Diaries; Lafayette, a new biography on the famous Bethlehem visitor, by Harlow Giles Unger; What Style is it? an American architecture guide; and The White House Cookbook, a compilation of original 1890s recipes plus new recipes from Hillary Rodham Clinton and Barbara Bush. The shops also have on hand postcards, candles, jewelry, notecards, colonial toys, Moravian cookies, and many other unusual items.
Historic Bethlehem Partnership
459 Old York Road
Bethlehem, PA 18018
610-882-0450
www.historicbethlehem.org
historicbethlehem@hotmail.com