Sometime in 1935, Elizabeth Johnston, 7, of Bethlehem got a present from her parents — a beautiful dollhouse from the Schoenhut Co. of Philadelphia. It was her first dollhouse, but it was hardly her ...

It was a time when it paid to be rich. And those who were not, would do well to fake it. It was a time when opulence cast a shadow on poverty, obscuring it from view. It was a time whose ...

Flora Gill Jacobs calls herself “a frustrated interior designer. I would have loved to be an architect, but I couldn’t do the arithmetic.” Instead, she spent nearly 60 years acquiring, researching, ...

A gift Jennifer Wakenell’s parents gave her as a child changed her life. “My mother and father gave me a beautiful dollhouse when I was a young girl,” she explains. “They painstakingly put in working ...

Flora Gill Jacobs, whose collection of antique miniatures became the Washington Dolls' House and Toy Museum and attracted visitors from around the world for nearly 30 years, died May 31 of congestive ...

This article is brought to you by our exclusive subscriber partnership with our sister title USA Today, and has been written by our American colleagues. It does not necessarily reflect the view of The ...