YORK – The largest fund-raiser of the season for the Old
York Historical Society kicks off this weekend with the opening of the 23rd
Annual Decorator Show House.
This year’s showplace is Harmon House at 19 Harmon Park Road
in York Harbor.
The show house will be open to the public beginning tomorrow
(Saturday, July 14) through August 11.
The house will be open Mondays, Wednesdays, Fridays and
Saturdays from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m., Thursdays until 7 p.m. and Sunday from 1 to 4
p.m. It will be closed Tuesdays,
Tickets are $20 and are available at the door.
Tickets to the house include free admission to the 5th
Annual Old York Antiques Show July 21-22. Free admission to the Museum’s
exhibit upstairs in the Parsons Center Gallery, 3 Lindsay Road from July 30 to
the close of our season, and a discounted admission of $5 to visit all of the
museums’ buildings.
Designer from throughout New England apply to take part in
the house and if selected are given areas of the home and/or gardens to redo
within certain guidelines.
New Hampshire designers taking part this year include Helen
Hanan Interior Design of Newmarket, Meredith Bohn Interiors of Hollis, Jay
Goldsmith Photography of Portsmouth, Ethan Allen Design Center of Portsmouth,
and Bartlett Design Associates of Dover
Maine participants include Anne Cowenhoven of York, Museums
of Old York, Georgie’s Home and Garden of York, Charles C. Hugo Landscape
Design of South Berwick, York Art Association, The Daisy Trading Company and
Daisy Jane’s of York.
Massachusetts firms include Mary O’Neill Interior Design of
North Andover, Gerald Pomeroy Design of Boston, and Finn-Martens Designs of
Beverly.
Items used in redecorating will be available for sale and a
boutique will be open in the garage on the property.
The chairwoman for this year’s show house is Beverly Young.
Old York has also scheduled a lecture series during the next
month.
It starts with a luncheon at Stonewall Kitchen Cooking School
July 18 with chef Beth Kozemchak. The session is scheduled from 11:10 a.m. to 1
p.m.
July 19 there will be a cocktail party at York Harbor Inn
from 6 to 8:30 p.m. with Don Cresswelll and Behind the Scenes at the Antiques
Road Show.
A July 25 luncheon will be held at the Stage Neck Inn and
includes a fashion show by Daisy Jane’s. The session is scheduled from 11:30
a.m. to 1 p.m.
There is an August 1 Luncheon at Dockside Restaurant with
Mary Ann Esposito, cookbook author and creator/host of Ciao Italia, the
nationally televised PBS series. That too is from 11:30 a.m. to 1 p.m.
There will be an evening cocktail cruise August 2 on board
the gundalow Piscataqua. In partnership with Discover Portsmouth and the
Gundalow Company, the cruise will include a tour of the “Under the Shoals”
exhibit followed by a river cruise with historian/author Dennis Robinson.
Exhibit tour meets at 4:15 p.m. at Discover Portsmouth. Cruise leaves Gundalow
dock at Prescott Park at 5:30 p.m.
Aug. 8 there will be a luncheon at York Harbor Reading Room
with a designer panel discussion with Sue Bartlett, Gerald Pomeroy, Michael
Engelhard and Linda Zukav. It will be held from 11:30 a.m.to 1:30 p.m.
There will be evening cocktail party August 9 at Stage Neck
Inn with designer Val Jorgensen discussing “Antiques and Today’s Design
Aesthetic.” The party will run from 6 to 8:30 p.m.
