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PAGE SIXTHE OPEN DOOR OF PORTSMOUTH2X3.asseteMtilveinmItermWtihCi;tocon?beMPortsmouth Gaxclca Club exhibit at Garden Club Festival.The Open Door, featured by the Poi-voniouth Garden Club at the New Hampshire Garden Clubs festival, was conceived ant! executed by Mrs. William E. Marvin, and Mrs. George B. Lord, The undertaking would not have been possible without the cooperation of the club members.The Portsmouth Garden Club wishes to thank Harry LeBaron for the use of the beautiful Henry H. Ham door; Mayor Marvin, the Board of Street Commissioners and Supt. Woods for moving the door; the Chamber of Commerce, through Mts. Frank W. Randall, for the trees used in the landscape and William C. Philbrick for the erection of the door and other carpenter work; George Dyer for the old brass knocker, which was formerly owned by B. P. Shillaber; Harry Wendell for the brass latch. Special thanks should be given Mr. and Mrs. K, Clinton Taylor for their Interest and co-[operation and for the unrestricted use .of the beautiful setting and the lilacson the lawn, of their estate, and to Willard Emery of Boston as the consulting architect who gave much valuable advice; also to the ladies of the Graf fort •and City clubs with their colonial costumes, which, did so mucH to complete ;the picture.The ladies who greeted visitors at the Open Door were as follows:Friday—Mrs. F. W. Hartford,. Mrs-D. C. Matthews and Mrs. John Mooney.Saturday—Mrs. Marjorie Hewitt, Mrs, Richard B. Shelton, Mrs. T. B. Sterling, Mrs. B. Stewart Rowe, Mrs. Arthur F. Lance.Sunday—Mrs, Beatrice Scarborough, Mrs. Thomas B. Noyes, Mrs, Edwin Brown. Miss Esther Johnson.Monday—Mrs. Florence Cummings, Mrs. Samuel Thompson, Miss Josephine Baker.;NeAtana im;;tbCOnosconCI;t1MiB*.IftJbrKiClbrheLlt;byfnle:po
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Portsmouth Herald and Times
Portsmouth, New Hampshire, US
Wed, Jun 19, 1935
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