The exhibit features 14 interpretive exhibit panels, 44 framed Nutting photographs (mostly of his five Colonial Picture Houses), 16 pieces of labeled or branded Nutting furniture, treen and iron wares, a selection of Nutting’s books and lantern slides used in his lectures. Nutting’s reproduction Windsor chairs in several different styles are displayed in the hall.

WETHERSFIELD, CONN. — The Webb-Deane-Stevens Museum this summer celebrated the 100th anniversary of the opening of the Webb House to the public by Wallace Nutting on July 4, 1916, with a reception and an ongoing exhibition at the Webb House of Wallace Nutting works, on view through October 30, in collaboration with the Wallace Nutting Collectors Club.

Yorktown Parlor, Webb House. The furniture arrangement, braided rugs, flowers and the female figure recreate the room as it was photographed by Nutting in “Birthday Flowers.”

The highlight of the exhibit is a Wallace Nutting Sudbury court cupboard loaned by Howard A. Willard Jr, along with a Nutting Connecticut sunflower chest, a bible box, wrought iron and Nutting pictures from his chain of Colonial houses. Also on view are pictures from Nutting’s homes in Southbury, Conn., and Framingham, Mass. At the reception, the hallway was lined with Wallace Nutting Windsor chairs.

The Joseph Webb house, built in 1752 and today owned by the National Society of Colonial Dames of America in Connecticut, is historically significant because General George Washington stayed here May 19–24, 1781, where he met Compte de Rochambeau and planned the campaign that resulted in Cornwallis’s surrender at Yorktown, Va. It is one of three preserved Eighteenth Century homes.

In 1914, a group of businessmen purchased the house but failed in their fundraising efforts to transform it into an atheneum or library, selling it two years later to Nutting. Nutting redecorated the home thoroughly, installing painted murals in the hallway and front parlors. After three years of opening the house to the public, in 1919, he sold the house

The celebration will continue in September when Nutting specialist Michael Ivankovich will present a lecture, “Wallace Nutting Overview…1861–1941” on Thursday, September 22, at 6:30 pm, followed the next day with a Nutting auction at the Episcopal Trinity Parish Hall, 300 Main Street, Wethersfield. Preview will be 1 to 3 pm on auction day, and the auction begins at 3 pm.

On Saturday, September 24, at the Episcopal Trinity Parish Hall, from 8 to 10 am, there will be a dealer’s buy, sell and trade at the Wallace Nutting Marketplace.

For additional information, www.webb-deane-stevens.org or 860-529-0612.

This double back Windsor settee, circa 1920, is a rare form that might have been a custom ordered from Nutting. Collection of Kenneth and Sharon Lacasse.

“Birthday Flowers,” circa 1916. This Nutting “Colonial” picture shows the Yorktown Parlor of the Webb House with the painted wall murals added by Nutting to celebrate Washington’s meeting with French General Rochambeau at the Webb House on May 22, 1781, and his victory at Yorktown on October 19, 1781.

Exhibit panel on “The Colonial Revival Style in America” is displayed next to a spinning wheel hat rack, circa 1930, Lacasse Collection, and the tinted photograph “Sunday Afternoon in the Old Home,” copyright 1902, from Palmer Collection. Both Nutting items were inspired by the New England Kitchen at the Centennial Exhibition in Philadelphia, 1876.

Blockfront chest of drawers, circa 1930, made of Cuban mahogany. Collection of Kenneth and Sharon Lacasse.

Pilgrim Chair, circa 1922. Collection of Susan and Gary Leonard.

Connecticut sunflower and tulip two-drawer chest, circa 1924, and carver armchair, circa 1921. Collection of Daniel and Linda Palmer.

Sudbury cupboard, circa 1927. Lent by Howard A. Willard, Jr. The bible box, circa 1930, is from the collection of Daniel and Linda Palmer.

Northeast Parlor, Webb House. The murals on the walls were painted in oil by three Hartford artists in 1916. A road circles the room with historic Connecticut buildings and two of Nutting’s picture houses along the way.