Last year, Nikki and Steve Wooster-Goodwin pooled their efforts and opened Sprouts Farm, New Hampshire’s pre-eminent architectural salvage firm. Located in Lancaster, Sprouts Farm’s enormous barn contains such must-have-them gems as:
- a whole bunch of clawfoot bathtubs
- previously built-in cabinetry and shelving
- pottery crocks, all the way to 30 gallon monsters
- potbelly wood stoves and coal stoves
- pedestal & apron-front sinks
- glass insulators of all types and colors
- enormous piles of books
- blue and other decorative glass
- a wide selection of vintage hardware, including doorknobs, hinges and pulls
- glass lamp shades in too many types and sizes to list
- floor grates, vents and registers in iron and brass
- a constantly-changing stock of furniture
- an extensive range of interior & exterior doors
- more china than you could shake a half-dozen sticks at
- one of the largest stocks of ceramic, wood and metal scottie dogs anywhere
Obviously, should you be anywhere nearby, it would be in your best interest to visit Nikki & Steve. Until you get there, you can take the virtual tour and just pretend. And of course, as always, tell them you read about their shop here on Hewn & Hammered.
Hey- thought you and youre readers would want more infor on all the frank lloyd wright stuff happening in buffalo new york. it’s a treausre trove for arts and crafts as you know from the roycrofters, but it’s also the only city outside of chicago to have works from the big three modern american architects- sullivan, hh richardson, and wright. Buffalo is the only city to have major works from each.
Check out the 30,000 square foot Darwin Martin House Complex renovation–it’s really unbelievable! An entire complex- 9 components- built to retell through architecture the lifestory of the man who commissioned it. I found lots of info, pictures & links from the blog at Pure Contemporary. Story link here.