The new online experience includes information on the collections and garden, behind-the scenes photographs, a 360° tour, stories of the family and staff, and more.
Start exploring by looking at the section on interior preservation work and the team of conservators who worked to restore and repair the dramatic Lincrusta-Walton wallcoverings.
The Bowen family installed the Lincrusta-Walton at Roseland Cottage in the mid-1880s. This newly fashionable wallcovering imitated richly tooled and gilded leather. The wallcovering was installed in the stair hall, both parlors, and the dining room, the principal entertaining rooms of the house. Today, Roseland Cottage is one of the few places where visitors can see Lincrusta in an original setting and with original surface coverings.
The Roseland Cottage web app is just one of Historic New England’s new online visitor experiences. With new research and never-before-seen videos and photographs, these buildings, landscapes, objects, and stories are more accessible than ever before.
This project was funded through the NEH CARES Act economic stabilization program. These grants support essential operations at more than three hundred cultural institutions across the country. The NEH was created in 1965 as an independent federal agency. It supports research and learning in history, literature, philosophy, and other areas of the humanities by funding selected, peer-reviewed proposals from around the nation. Additional information about the NEH and its grant programs is available at neh.gov.
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