I possess a partiality for irregular houses, when you go up and down steps, out of one room into another and when you come upon more rooms when you think you have seen all there are, and where then is a bountiful provision of little halls & passages, and where you find older rooms in unexpected places with lattice windows and green growth pressing through them.
Janet Watson Seward's Wedding Dress
c. 1860
Dress worn by Janet McNeil Watson when she married William. H. Seward II on June 17, 1860. A White faille wedding dress; two piece with cap sleeves. Originally this dress was covered with silk net which deteriorated. Janet wore this dress on her 50th wedding anniversary in 1910 and her great granddaughter, Cornelia Messenger wore it when she married in 1956.
