Talking back: voices from an empty house: the interior space of the Frantz-Dunn House as artifact

Graduation date: 2006Best scan available for photos.The 134-year old Frantz-Dunn House in Hoskins. Oregon is an intact, well-preserved\ud example of rural Gothic architecture in the Willamette Valley. The old farmstead sits on a\ud former Civil War Fort site and represents a link in the history of the region to the larger\ud patterns of expansion in America during the nineteenth century. This study focuses on the\ud family history of three generations of occupants of the historic dwelling. The information\ud was gathered from extant materials and official documents, historic publications, local\ud museum collections, visual observation of the house and from interviews with the\ud relatives of the pioneer families and selected Hoskins residents. Special interest was paid\ud to the interior furnishings and finishes in the interest of the material culture of the house.\ud Interior furnishings were discussed from interview and extant elements.\ud Recommendations for further study of this and other historic houses with focus on the\ud interior material culture of are given