Kelton House Scrapbook

Looseleaf scrapbook begins with a letter from Joseph Gromacki (a trustee of Historic Deerfield) of Chicago, Illinois to Charles Brown. Mr. Gromacki now owns the former Kelton House, a colonial saltbox Warwick house which was dismantled in the early 1970's and moved and reconstructed to a site in rural Wisconsin. He bought the house from a man who had bought it from Amos Alexander. He describes how he has restored the house, has enclosed many photographs of both the exterior (with beautiful landscaping and gardens) and interior (with fine period furniture and decorative arts) and asks Mr. Brown for further information about the house and the Kelton family.
The scrapbook includes a 3 page history of the Kelton House, photographs of the house in Warwick, the current photographs, and the notes from Brown regarding the Moses-Kelton Cemetery and genealogical material on the Kelton Family. Inserted within the front cover is a 44 page Kelton House Farm guide published in 2011 by Gromacki with information about the Kelton family and details on the seventeenth and early eighteenth century American furniture and artwork. It concludes with an invitation to visit to gain an
"enhanced appreciation for the colonial period of our American history."

Donated by
Charles L. Brown, Jr.
Donation date
2012-09-19