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Haan Museum of Indiana Art Room by Room Guide First Floor July 9, 2019

FRONT ENTRY Architecture  The closets on either side of the door are glove closets. Women of that period always wore gloves when they went outside.  The entire front entry was made in 1760 for the Hubbard-Slater mansion in Norwich, Connecticut, and included in the Connecticut Building at the World's Fair.

Paintings  The paintings on each side of the front door are by TC Steele, the most important painter who stayed in Indiana to paint. These paintings of his children show how cultured families spent their time in the 1800’s. The piano is still in Steele’s studio in Nashville, IN.  The Cellist, TC Steele, 1894, is a painting of his son, Shirley.  Daisy at the Piano, TC Steele, 1893. Daisy is his daughter.

Furniture  Pier table, New York, 1810; alabaster columns and bronze feet  Grandfather Clock, 1910; sold by Badger Furniture, Indianapolis  Pier Mirror, 1870; ebony with mother of pearl and bronze inlay and brass trim

PARLOR

History The door between the parlor and the family room was added when the house was moved to Lafayette.

Architecture There were no ceiling fixtures in the two front rooms or in any second floor rooms when the Haans purchased the property. The Haans added this antique basket chandelier and a matching one in the office as well as new fixtures in all the second floor rooms.

Paintings (counterclockwise from the Great Hall door) All the paintings in this room are by Hoosier Group artists. Steele, Adams and Forsythe all trained in Munich. When they came back, they painted like the piece above the fireplace in the great hall. Their work was very dark and precise, almost like a photograph.

 Misty Harbor, Richard Gruelle, 1898  Farm Near Vernon, William Forsyth, 1891 o Cover picture of a book about Forsyth by Rachel Perry  Still Life with Oranges, TC Steele, 1887  Mysterious River, T C Steele, 1895 o Depicts the Mississinewa River  The Mississinewa River, J Ottis Adams, 1895 1 o Both were painted in 1895 along the Mississinewa River on 22” x 29” canvases  Suzanne in the Garden, Otto Stark, 1904 o Stark trained in Paris, and married a French girl (Marie). o Marie died after their fourth child was born, and he never remarried. o His children are in many of his paintings, and this is his daughter, Suzanne.

Furniture  The swivel chair and the apple table were made from clay by Marvin Bartel of Goshen.  The three-piece parlor suite has in mother-of-pearl, ivory, and wood inlay, and ribbon and reed trim, and claw feet.  The lamp on the corner table is made from alabaster and marble, with a carved alabaster shade. It came from a small auction in Illinois.  Coffee table with bronze ormolu, purchased at a Jefferson High School antique show. The Egyptian features date it to about 1890.  The small desk was used in the US House of Representatives from 1857 through 1873. o The desk number #83, identifies who used the desk and where it was placed. o Desk #83 was used by Thaddeus Stevens of Pennsylvania, a strong supporter of abolition. o Show the location of the desk on the seating chart. o It was made by Doe, Hazelton Co. of Boston.

GREAT HALL

History The area with the fireplace had men’s restrooms at the Fair, and the fireplace was added when the mansion was reconstructed in Lafayette. The other side of the arch had ladies’ restrooms, which were converted to closets and a small restroom.

Architecture The 21’ x 40’ great hall reflects the grand scale used throughout the mansion. The center back hall has a split grand staircase with three sets of French doors on the first floor and three on the landing.

Paintings  German Interior, Samuel Richards, c 1893. Richards went to Munich with TC Steele, and stayed there to continue painting. He contracted tuberculosis a few years later and died in 1899.  Christ Church Cathedral, Indianapolis, TC Steele 1918  The Shades, Montgomery County, TC Steele 1888, before it became Shades State Park  Home in the Hills, William Forsyth 1899. (nearest drawing room)

Furniture  1840 Center Table o It is 12 feet long when closed, and came with five leaves. o Bob installed slides so that it can extend to 32 feet when expanded.  The Tiffany Hanging Precision Regulator Clock o It was made for the 1893 Columbian Exposition in Chicago. o As the air temperature rises, the pendulum gets longer, and it would take longer to strike a second.

2 o Tiffany put mercury in the vials to offset that effect. o The mercury expands in the opposite direction so that the center of mass doesn’t change. o That makes the clock accurate to within a few seconds per month.  Lodge Chair o It was used by a lodge such as the Elks or Moose Lodge. o It features columns, dentil trim and paw feet. o There’s usually a six-foot Santa Clause in the chair around Christmas time. . Orchestral Regina Music Box o This Orchestral Regina music box was made in New York around 1895. o The mechanism allowed disks to be changed easily from the cabinet below. o This model plays 27-inch discs that are stored in the lower drop-front door. o Each disk plays just one song (ask guests to guess how many songs). o It is coin operated because many of these music boxes were put in public places after Thomas Edison’s phonograph became popular. o After you put in the nickel you turn the crank on the right to wind it up. o We are not currently playing the music boxes, except for special events. . Easel by Horner Brothers, who also made the table and grandfather clock in dining room, and partners desk in the family room.

Works on the center table  Square lidded jar – George Debikey o George made this for his wife Ilana (also an artist). o Bob and Ellie always admired it when they visited the Debikeys. o After a few years, George and Ilana brought the jar to Lafayette and offered it to the Haans. o George made a similar jar for Ilana, and put a heart on the bottom so it could never be sold.  Bell-shaped vessel – Dick Hay, Brazil IN, retired from Indiana State University. o Dick is a firm believer that his work is “ceramics”, and not pottery – and that if you can eat from it, it isn’t art (“would you eat off the Mona Lisa?”).  Wood fired jar – Dick Lehman, Goshen

Works by the fireplace  Large floor vessels in front of the fireplace – Bill Kremer, Notre Dame

FORMAL OFFICE History  Reception Room at World’s Fair  George Potter used this room as his office.

Paintings  The Cloisters, T C Steele 1884 - one of the places he lived while studying in Munich  Still Life with Flowers, William Merritt Chase  Washday, TC Steele, 85 - painted after Steele returned from Munich.  Iris and Columbine, Ada Shulz – Ada and Adolph Shulz from Wisconsin moved to Brown County to join the artist colony after T.C. Steele moved there.  Untitled landscape, Adolph Shulz  Women on the Porch, T C Steele, 1899 - the porch is on the Steele and Adams studio in Brookville

Furniture  Wooton Desk o Wooton desks were made in Indianapolis between 1872 and 1882 by the William Wooton Desk Company. o Wooton made four grades of desks, and this is the Superior grade, which is the largest and fanciest. o This grade was custom made for rich and famous people around the world. o The Haans looked for a Superior Grade desk for 15 years before finding this in Atlanta, and they’ve never seen another one in person. o There’s a mailbox slot for mail or messages.  Empire Side Table, c 1820  Bookcase o Notice the crest at the top of the bookcase. It appears on a cabinet in the kitchen. o The bookcase contains a collection of works by historic Indiana authors.  Bronze o Dance of Awakening Day, Tuck Langland, Granger, Indiana (near South Bend) o Langland created very large bronzes for major institutions, including the Federal Reserve in Oklahoma City. o Tuck is the only Indiana artist who is a member of the National Academy of Art as well as a Fellow of the National Sculpture Society. o There are two more Langland bronzes in the Museum and two in the sculpture garden.

DRAWING ROOM

History The drawing room would have been the formal entertaining room in a mansion like this. At the World's Fair, it was furnished very much like it is now, but without a piano. A 1760 candlestand that was in this room at the World's Fair is now in the Museum.

Architecture  The crown molding is plaster, molded in about four-foot sections.  Notice the ornate trim over the door leading to the side entryway.  The columns on each side of the door match the columns in the Great Hall, on the other side of the arch.  Chandelier is the only chandelier original to the house at the World’s Fair.

Paintings  The Moccasin Game, George Winter, 1837 o This documents the Potawatomie Indians who lived near Logansport. o It was painted from life in 1837, before the Indians were forced to move west. o The moccasin game is similar to the shell game, in which a small item is hidden under one of several shells, and players try to figure out which shell.  Boys on the Dock, Adam Emory Albright  Frosty Morn, J Ottis Adams, 1894 o It was painted during his Prairie Dell (near Muncie) period.

4 o It was one of his two pieces in the Chicago exhibition where the term "Hoosier Group" originated.  The Old Mill, TC Steele, 1904 (above fireplace) o It was exhibited in the Central Art Palace at the 1904 St. Louis World's Fair. o Paintings in the Central Art Palace were judged by an international jury, and included works by artists from around the world. o It shows a mill in Brookville that was falling apart. o People would bring their wagons and retrieve bricks for their own use.  Daisy by the River, T C Steele, 1891  Daisy on the Porch, T C Steele

Furniture  Bremond music box o It was custom made in Geneva, Switzerland, in 1882 for a gentleman in Canada. o It has 12 cylinders and plays all 72 tunes listed on the lid. o It has a drum, castanets, bells, little flute piccolo and flute celestial voices. o Do not play either music box. o No one can wind the Bremond music box unless specifically trained.  Chickering 9-foot rosewood concert grand piano: o This piano was made in Boston in 1872, and the greatest concert pianists in the world used this model. o The art case is the most beautiful symmetrical case of any concert grand, and only a few were made with the scalloped trim. o Chickering hired the man that developed the first cast iron frame for pianos, and adopted his system soon after. o The piano was purchased because of the beautiful case, but needs to be fully restored. o The Haan Museum Piano Restoration Fund was started by Asako and Yuichi Iikubo.  Thomas Brook pier mirror on the front wall o This is the only spot in the house where it fits o Five pieces of furniture and several paintings had to be moved to make space for it.  The carved piece in the doorway is a portfolio stand. It contains the Gold Medal certificate that the largest Weller vase earned as a gold prize winner at the 1904 World's Fair.

Rug  The oriental carpet did not come with the house o The Haans purchased it separately from one of the Potter daughters. o The Potters had purchased the rug while on a trip in the 1940’s.

 7 Foot Weller Vase o The two large vases were part of the Weller exhibit at the 1904 St Louis World's Fair. o There is another one in the parlor. o The largest vase won the Gold Medal for the Arts at the Fair. o This was the largest of five monumental vases in the Weller exhibit at the 1904 World’s Fair. o It was so big that Weller made a special kiln to accommodate it. o Eight attempts were made before they were successful. o Noted Weller artist Frank Farrell decorated this vase in 1897.

5 o The vase has a separate base. The upper portion was molded in two parts and joined in a special firing.  5 Foot Weller Vase o This is the second largest of the three large vases from the World’s Fair.  Bronze on the pier mirror o This was made by Tuck Langland from Granger, Indiana. o Femme d'Afrique is on the table in the back hall. o Dance of Awakening Day is in the Office. o His Venus Rising welcomes you into the Sculpture Garden.

FAMILY ROOM

History This was originally the Library at the World’s Fair. The arch was in the building at the Fair, but the glass and pocket doors were added when the Potters rebuilt the house in Lafayette. The Family Room was the primary room used by the Haans each evening and for family gatherings.

Architecture Notice the triple hung windows next to the terrace.  They were made so that the two bottom sashes could be raised.  That allowed people to walk out onto the terrace as if it were a door.  The terraces would have been taxed as usable space if access was through a door.  Providing access by windows eliminated that tax.

Paintings  The Haan Mansion, Harry Davis, 1994; commissioned for the Haans’ 25th anniversary, and the 90th anniversary of the World’s Fair. o Harry documented what was going on in Italy for the War Department. o When he returned, he was bothered by all the old buildings that were being torn down, and started painting pictures of old buildings. o Bob and Ellie met Harry at an auction and asked him to paint their home. He said that he didn’t paint houses, and walked away. He called several weeks later and said that he’d like to paint the house. o There are no curtains on the windows on the right because when Harry took a picture, the Haans had taken down the curtains to wallpaper the parlor and family room.  House of the Singing Winds, T C Steele, 1916 o Steele built this house in rural Brown County when he re-married in 1907 o The view is from his studio o This is now a State Historic site.  The Old Mill Brookville, William Forsyth o This was part of a package of eight paintings that the Haans purchased after the paintings were included in The Passage, a book and exhibition that went to Munich, New York and Indianapolis.  Picking Berries, TC Steele, 1894.

6 Furniture  Karpen Sofa with griffins, made in Chicago  Hand carved Gothic grandfather clock o Hand carved in 1910 by an Indianapolis furniture maker o Custom made for a businessman as a gift o Lumber came from a log found buried near Gosport, Indiana and was carbon dated to be from 2100 BC  Horner Brothers partners desk with winged griffins o Winged griffins have a lion's body and an eagle's wings. They are a sign of strength. o These are seated griffins, because they are sitting down. o Griffin motif repeats in other Horner Brother pieces in the dining room table and the grandfather clock o Each partner gets a center drawer and the drawers to the right of the center drawer

DINING ROOM

History We believe that the corner cupboards are from a 1760 building in Connecticut.

Architecture The arch was there at the World's Fair. The leaded glass and pocket doors were added when the building was rebuilt in Lafayette.

Paintings  On the Muscatatuck, TC Steele, 1886 – First western artist painting purchased by the Boston Art Club  Maiden, Louis Oscar Griffith  New England Scene, Anna Hasselman

Furniture  Ten-foot grandfather clock by Horner Brothers, c 1890 o Engaged griffins near top o Rat-tail maidens in front  Dining room table by Horner Brothers o The table base has winged griffins similar to those on the partners desk, but these are standing griffins.. o It came with 12 chairs that need to be restored and re-covered. o The chairs around the table now are reproduction chairs from around 1910, and were purchased for temporary use. o A matching china cabinet and sideboard are upstairs.  China cabinet, Renaissance Revival with Bacchus (god of wine) decoration

BUTLER’S PANTRY The Butler’s pantry is sometimes used for office purposes, and is not usually open for daily tours. History  This room was the Serving Room at the Fair, and served as a butler’s pantry for the Potter family.

7  It was used by the Haans as a breakfast room, but returned to its original use when the kitchen was remodeled in 2004 Architecture  The tall built-in cabinets were added when the house was moved to Lafayette. They had been painted green, and the Haans stripped them down and stained and varnished them.  The original windows were triple hung like the rest of the first floor, and the Potters converted them to a picture window in the 1940’s.  This was used by the Haans as a breakfast room, but returned to its original use when the kitchen was remodeled in 2004.  When the Haans purchased the home, the walls were covered with knotty pine, and there was a steam radiator recessed into the wall.  When the Haans had the knotty pine removed, they found that there was originally a bookcase in the wall. o The contractor made a frame for the bookcase, but it didn’t look right because new pine takes stain differently. o The contractor found old-growth wood in Missouri, which he used to make the bookcase frame and the low cabinets under the window. o The car siding inside had been used to block in some windows in the breakfast room (now the office) that the Haans restored.  The library ladder was added to provide access to the upper cabinets.

Paintings  Spring on the Farm, Edward K Williams

KITCHEN

The kitchen is not open for daily tours.

Encourage guests to take a treat, but food must stay in the kitchen.

History  In 2004, the Haans replaced the 1940s kitchen that had metal cabinets, a red and cream asphalt tile floor, and green tile walls.  Bob Haan designed all of the cabinets in the kitchen. o Some are based on architectural features of the house, and others are based on some of the antique furniture in the house. o They were made locally by Metzger Woodworking near Rossville, based on Bob's drawings. o The kitchen uses a concept called fully integrated, where the appliances are hidden behind panels that match the cabinets. o The refrigerator, dishwasher and warming drawer are all concealed (show them the refrigerator). o Most of the trim was purchased online. The two capitals on the refrigerator cabinet were hand carved because the capitals available online were not good enough quality for the key piece in the kitchen.  The ladder is made from the same wood as the cabinets, and allows Ellie to reach the top shelves.

8  The island in the kitchen is an 1850 American antique table covered with a 500 pound piece of granite.  As part of the kitchen renovation, contractors installed an elevator that services all four floors. o A dumb waiter originally filled that space o The Potters had removed the dumb waiter and put closets on each floor. o Each floor had enough space for a wheelchair and attendant, but the walls didn't line up. They had to move a second floor wall six inches in one direction, and a third floor exterior wall in the other direction.

Architecture  The building had verandas all the way across both the first and second floors at the Fair.  The Potters removed part of the first floor veranda to add the kitchen wing when the house was moved, and the kitchen ceiling was lower so that it fit under the second floor veranda. o The Potters added two rooms above the kitchen about 10 years later, but didn’t raise the kitchen ceiling. o When the Haans updated the kitchen, contractors were able to raise the ceilings to 11 feet like the rest of the first floor, and that allowed the Haans to build cabinets that fit the grand scale of the house.  The kitchen was very plain because it was used almost exclusively by servants. o The door and window casings had just one plain board on each side and one on the top. o The Haans had new window and door casings made to match the casings on the second floor. o The new base moldings and crown moldings are more in keeping with the scale of the new kitchen.

Stained glass windows  Made by Bob’s cousin, Jim Klaiber o Jim taught art at Logansport High School for 40 years. o The windows depict cardinals, Indiana’s state bird, and each contain 500 pieces of glass.

ELEVATOR HALL AND CENTER BACK HALL

History The stairs in the small hall by the elevator provided servants easy access to the second floor. The door directly across from the elevator leads to the basement.

Furniture  Large center back hall desk, 1850; came from the Willard Hotel in Washington, DC o Presidents stayed at the Willard before their inaugurations and when they couldn’t stay at the White House. o The desk is supposed to be from the Presidential Suite.

Ceramics, Bronze and Stone  Femme d’Afrique, bronze, Tuck Langland o The Indiana State Museum borrowed this for their Bicentennial exhibition.  Teapots, Lennie Dowhie

9  Lady with Hat, Dick Hay  Mousetrap (under the table), Dick Hay  Three carved sculptures under the side stairs, Peter Rujuwa from Indianapolis o Each was carved from one piece of serpentine stone. o Shona style was developed in his native homeland, Zimbabwe.

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