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Hidden Asset S e p t e m b e r 2015 131 22 1962 she says muffling a giggle. The minister was backed up to the fireplace. We stood in the middle of the room. It was a small affair in the midst of a big blizzard Of the McCulloch Shipyard the grass- covered ways softened by time slip into the river framed in the wall of windows of the updated kitchen she says Do you know the granite locks in the Kennebunk Riv- er When they were finished building a hull here theyd lock in a moon tide and take the hullstothePort.InKennebunkporttheves- sels were rigged. Wistfully she adds Four ships built here were lost in the War of 1812. Another ship was lost in a storm off the coast of Kennebunkport. Hugh McCulloch the Secretary of the Treasury attended Bowdoin for two years then left by horseback for Indiana. He worked his way up and became presi- dent of the Bank of Fort Wayne. Then he was named First Comptroller of Currency by Lincoln and succeeded as Secretary of the Treasury. The house and much of Captains Row Summer Street in Kennebunk are on the National Register of Historic Places. I graduated from Orono in 1959 Enid says. Recruited by the CIA at school I signed my life away with a 37-page doc- ument and went directly to Washington D.C. My husband and I met in Washing- ton at the CIAs Foreign Broadcast Infor- mation Service. We were both editors. The FBIS had listening posts that were like parentheses around the Soviet Union. I worked in the USSR section. He worked in the Asia sector. The romance deepened with a further as- signment. We honeymooned in Saigon. Their shared love of retiring here re- verberates in every cared-for room. Just as we leave she says proudly There isnt a straight door anywhere. My mother al- ways said this house rises and falls with the tides. If youre not wondering why were shar- ing this sentiment you may very well be the right buyer. Four bedrooms 2.5 baths. Two- and-a-half acres of waterfront including a dock. Taxes are 7729. n I nside a closet in the music room is a very large fragment of ancient wallpaper that according to family tradition was the original wallpaper for the entire room and has resided here as long as the mcCullochs. this delight- ful attraction appears to have been applied directly to the wallboard. Its incendiary and naughtya celebration of In- dependence Day 1775. One of the figures grinds the words british Laws under his shoe. A neoclassic british warrior holds his head in his hands ruined. A son of Liberty shares an engaging conversation with a Native American. We asked wallpaper scholar and conservator Barry Blanchard for a close analysis this pattern is referred to as pillar and arch blanchard says. It was popular in english design in the 18th centu- ry. After the American revolution versions of the pattern included iconic images representing the new nation and breaking of the bonds with the british empire. most like- ly theyd have been printed in France although theres a chance an American company could have made a knock off. theres a sample of this same paper in the wallpaper archives of Historic New england. When you get to the site click on Collections Archives and exhibitiionsCollections AccessWallpaper. In the search box type in pillar and arch. Scroll down to find your wallpaper. the Cooper Hewitt museum in NY has a large wallpaper collection as well. If you do a search for pillar and Arch wall- paper at Cooper Hewitt and Sacred WashingtonCooper Hewitt you can find some links to historical perspectives on this type of wallpaper. Also a book by Catherine Lynn called Wallpaper In America has a section on this period. She has a photo of this same paper and other similar ones with additional informa- tion on the history behind it. Your wallpaper has been reproduced by Adelphi paper- Hangings in Sharon Springs New York. they produce re- production wallpapers from original documents. their wall- papers are block printed which is the original method used in the 18th century. I have installed many of their products and consider it among the best in the historic market. the manager and printer is Steve Larsen. Im sure hed be happy to talk to you. You can reach him at 518 284-9066. the border would have been installed at the same time as the wallpaper. Finding historical references to that would be much more difficult and time-consuming. Assuming the wallpapers are original to the late 18th century it does make it an interesting document. Steve Larsen might be interest- ed in it as something to reproduce.