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News Release
Office of News and Information
Johns Hopkins University
3400 N. Charles Street
Baltimore, Maryland 21218-2692
Phone: (410) 516-7160
Fax (410) 516-5251
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February 12, 1999
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
CONTACT: Judith Proffitt or
Catherine Rogers Arthur
(410) 516-5589
homewood@jhunix.hcf.jhu.edu
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Potthast Craftsmen Reunion at Homewood House
Museum
The Homewood House
Museum will host a Potthast Craftsmen Reunion and
Discovery Day from 1 to 3 p.m. on Saturday, Feb. 27, at the
Homewood House Museum on the Homewood campus of the Johns Hopkins
University, 3400 N. Charles St. The event is part of the
museums on-going exhibit "Homewood in the Colonial
Revival."
The Potthast Bros. furniture-making shop was a Baltimore
institution from 1892 to 1975. The firm was founded by four
German immigrant brothers, William, Vincent, John and Theodore
Potthast. By the 1920s, the Potthasts had 25 craftsmen as
employees and specialized in fine hand-crafted reproductions.
During the event, surviving members of the Potthast family will
offer first-hand accounts of shop practices, craft techniques and
some of their own stories about growing up in the Potthast family
furniture business.
Also during the event, Bruce Levinson, of Alex Cooper
Auctioneers, will be available to evaluate audience members
own antiques. Bring the actual item if it is a small chair or
object, or for a larger piece, a good photograph. Levinson will
help assess its authenticity and provide a verbal appraisal.
Limit one object per person.
Tours of "Homewood in Colonial Revival" are included in
the admission price. Admission is $10 per person; former
furniture craftsmen are admitted free. To make reservations or
for more information please call 410-516-5589.
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