Dancing The Night Away and Then Some

I LOVED the Seelye Mansion Parlour 

off of the Ballroom.

The Summer Tour continues. 

More Bedrooms are on this floor.

They're small, comfy and pleasant to see.

Each bed had a beautiful quilt.

Restful.

I know that I have a very bad habit 

of rearranging furniture in my head every where I go.

I guess this is the wanna-be decorator in me.

This gorgeous 1905 Georgian-style house

in Abilene

made no difference...I shuffled furniture about.

SOme of the rooms had too much furniture and nic-nac stuff sitting out.

I would like to see some of the pieces elsewhere in the house.

Mental Decorating is a true sport!

Affordable and has no limits.

Fainting Couches are allowed for the faint of heart 

and those needing to catch their breath.

ADDITIONAL BEDROOMS

ONE

TWO

THREE

FOUR

 FIVE

SIX

Can we see more.....yes.

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More Seelye Mansion Bedrooms

One Bedroom has a brass bed for sleeping in

and the other bedroom has a nice size bed with a wooden headboard, footboard and four poles.

Both rooms are airy with white lace panels.

Pleasant dreams you all.

Pleasant dreams.

Angels watch over thee.

Hallway Family Pictures 

on the way to another Bedroom.

Bed at an angle.

Nice.

Blessings to you.

Homes come in every size and shape.

Kind of like people.

Places that we live can be filled with all kinds of goodies and still be in lack.

God bless our homes.

God bless you.

May you have a loving HOME 

and not just a house,

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The SISTERS Bedroom At Seelye Mansion

TWIN BEDS are in the Sisters' shared bedroom.  Being so close in age, the two girls shared the same room through out their youth and well into their old age. 

Doing their part for the War, the foot boards of the lovely metal beds became the headboards as the headboards were sawed off and given toward the WAR EFFORT.

The Seelye girls, Marion Eleanor (January 19, 1895 - August 5, 1988) and baby sister Helen Ruth (February 21, 1896 - January 26, 1992) moved into the mansion as young children and stayed as neither girl married. 

They made arrangements to live out their days in the house after the mansion sold in February 1982 to the Tietjens twins, Terry and Jerry, who restored the house and grounds.  The brothers would be considered honorary grandsons.

One porcelain doll has blue eyes, 

the other brown.  

ART mimics LIFE.

~Helen Ruth and Marion Eleanor~

The little girls would be Victorian CHILDREN 
growing into Edwardians that advanced into the roaring twenties flapping momentum into the modern world.  Old Age happened to where the matronly GIRLS gave tours of their mansion.

Overall, I think the public was pleased

to be able to tour the mansion and hear about their Father's Business success, 
who really was never a doctor but went by Dr. A. B. Seelye.

  

I can only imagine what living in one place for the majority of my earthly life would be like.  Only think on it.  Where we live now is the longest amount of time I have stayed put since I married  my sweetheart.

HOME LIFE is for me,

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