# Brewster Chair

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{{Short description|Style of chair formerly made in New England}}

thumb|A 17th-century Brewster Chair<ref>{{cite book |last=Nutting |first=W. |title=Furniture of the Pilgrim Century: 1620-1720, Including Colonial Utensils and Hardware |publisher=Marshall Jones Company |year=1921 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=K3MvAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA182 |access-date=2019-08-26 |page=182}}</ref>
[[Image:Elder Brewster Chair and Peregrine White cradle.jpg|thumb|The [Pilgrim Hall Museum](/source/Pilgrim_Hall_Museum) owns the original [Elder Brewster](/source/Elder_Brewster) Chair and [Peregrine White](/source/Peregrine_White) cradle.]]

A '''Brewster Chair''' is a style of [turned chair](/source/turned_chair) made in mid-17th-century [New England](/source/New_England).

==Origin==
The "Brewster Chair" was named after [William Brewster](/source/William_Brewster_(Pilgrim)), one of the [Pilgrim](/source/Pilgrim_(Plymouth_Colony)) fathers who landed in [Plymouth, Massachusetts](/source/Plymouth%2C_Massachusetts) in 1620. In 1830, the Brewster family of Duxbury donated Elder Brewster's original chair to [Pilgrim Hall Museum](/source/Pilgrim_Hall_Museum) in Plymouth, where it remains today.  His chair was created in New England between 1630 and 1660 of American [white ash](/source/Fraxinus_americana). Other similar New England chairs from the 17th century have been named after this piece.<ref name=":0">{{Cite book|url = https://books.google.com/books?id=K3MvAAAAMAAJ|title = Furniture of the Pilgrim Century: 1620-1720, Including Colonial Utensils and Hardware|last = Nutting|first = Wallace|date = 1921-01-01|publisher = Marshall Jones Company|language = en}}</ref>

In the 1970s, Rhode Island sculptor [Armand LaMontagne](/source/Armand_LaMontagne) produced a notorious fake Brewster Chair that fooled the national experts at the [Henry Ford Museum](/source/Henry_Ford_Museum), which acquired the piece.<ref name=":0" /><ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.thehenryford.org/exhibits/pic/2000/00apr.asp |title=The Brewster Chair and the game of "Fool The Experts" |date=April 1, 2000 |publisher=Henry Ford Museum |accessdate=20 October 2010 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20100805234134/http://www.thehenryford.org/exhibits/pic/2000/00apr.asp |archivedate=5 August 2010 }}</ref>

==References==
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==External links==
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20050326175309/http://www.pilgrimhall.org/brechair.htm Original Brewster Chair at the Pilgrim Hall Museum]
*[https://books.google.com/books?id=K3MvAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA182&dq=%22brewster+chair%22#PPA182,M1 "Furniture of the Pilgrim Century" by Wallace Nutting (Marshall Jones: Boston, 1921) pg 182-184] (Google Books search)

Category:Chairs
Category:Culture of Massachusetts

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