When Mrs. Fisher started constructing the miniature rooms: The Original Six Rooms
Mrs. Fisher began collecting and creating dollhouses in 1947. What began as a recreational hobby became a decades long artistic endeavor as she carefully built the rooms by one inch to the foot with the intention of creating a panorama of American life from the eighteenth century to the present (which was the 1950s).
A Photograph Depicting the Scale and How the Rooms Were Cleaned and Maintained, American Rooms in Miniature, Mrs. James Ward Throne, 1941.
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Miniatures at Ritter's Store
The project would be completed in under fifteen years, beginning in 1947 with an original six rooms, with two more additions before 1962, each comprising two more rooms.
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An image depicting the completed Dollhouse by Mrs. Fisher, [ca. twentieth century]
The original six rooms Mrs. Fisher created were the following:
One room would eventually become ten, beginning with "a lovely penthouse, a Victorian living room, an Eighteenth-century drawing room, an authentic Dutch kitchen, a country store, and a game room complete with its own bar”—each bestowed with its own individual personality and interest.
Victorian Living Room
Game Room
18th century Drawing Room
Penthouse
Country Store
Pennsylvania Dutch Kitchen
Those to follow would include a nook and cranny antique store where there is always something new to discover and colonial bed-room, equipped with drawers and canopied bed.
Antique Store
Colonial Bedroom
In her last inclusions, Fisher would create her impressive central point of the collection, with a Gothic Library and Early American Kitchen.
The Gothic Library
Early American Kitchen