11 March 2015

Wall Papering

March 6, 1936  We pasted paper on the dining room walls.
In the spring of 1936, the Siemens had a couple important events approaching, and they wanted the house to look as nice as possible.  When they had built their house in 1930, they had nailed it out with lathes in preparation for plastering, but they had covered the walls with cardboard instead of actually plastering it.  Even now, they apparently did not have the money to finish all of the house, but they wanted the dining room to look nice because that was where they would host the guests, so the whole family spent the day putting up wallpaper in that one room.

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