In imagination, these low-studded apartments, secret divans and closets became repeopled by their former tenants.
"Due North or Glimpses of Scandinavia and Russia"
Maturin M. Ballou
Of his collection before it was moved from the house on Evanston Avenue, adjoining the Waller lot, his friend Julian Ralph wrote: He had cabinets and closets filled with the wreckage of England, New England, Holland, and Louisiana; walls littered with mugs, and prints, and pictures, plates, and warming-pans; shelves crowded with such things, and mantel-pieces likewise loaded, through two stories of his house.
"Eugene Field, A Study In Heredity And Contradictions"
Slason Thompson
She liked the clean kitchen, all fresh white woodwork, tiles, and nickelplate, and she liked the big closets and the gas- log.
"Sisters"
Kathleen Norris