by Admin | Sep 13, 2020 | Featured Stories
This collection of charts, manuscript maps, and documents descended in the Sever family of Kingston MA. Nicholas Sever (1680-1764) and his son, William (1729-1809) were successful merchants involved in the coastal New England trade and were known to own at least...
by Admin | Sep 11, 2020 | Press
LAURA BEACH – SEPTEMBER 4, 2020 Photographer Paul Rocheleau remembers the first time he met William Nathaniel Banks Jr., the writer and collector whose thirty-seven articles were a popular feature of this publication for more than forty years. It was in...
by Admin | Aug 12, 2020 | Press
By Abby Schultz Updated Aug. 12, 2020 9:31 am ET An expansive collection of Federal and Classical American furniture, 19th-century American paintings, and decorative arts that once filled William N. Banks, Jr.’s historic 1820s Federal-style home in Newnam, Ga., is...
by Admin | Jul 28, 2020 | Press
PUBLISHED: JUNE 30, 2020 By Laura Beach ASHEVILLE, N.C. – William N. Banks Jr, who died last November at age 95, was the model of a scholar collector, his work as a regular contributor to The Magazine Antiques dovetailing with his passion for preserving historic homes...
by Admin | Jul 24, 2020 | Press
Maine Antique Digest, July 2020, by Lita Solis-Cohen William Nathaniel Banks’s collection of Federal and Classical furniture, lighting, 19th-century American paintings, and the accouterments of gracious living that filled the Gordon-Banks house in Newnan, Georgia,...