(Formerly) Craven's Studio, Art Gallery, & Attached Home
(It's now Paganini Restorante)
Photographs shown here were part of a slide presentation at the Mercer Museum, Bucks County Historical Society postcard exhibit titled "Greetings from Bucks County." Programs & Events included lectures by 1) Betty Davis, "Themes in Post Card Collecting;" 2) Larry Hale, "Craven Images and Yardley in Post Cards;" 3) Betty Davis, "Arnold Brothers slide program;" 4) Cynthia Earman (Library BCHS), "Care and Preservation of Post Cards;" 5) Thomas E. Range, "Pennsylvania Dutch Country in Post Cards;" 6) Lance Metz (Historian National Canal Museum), "The Folklife of Pennsylvania's Towpath Canals;" and 7) Heather Mumbauer, "Post Card Publishing in Bucks County: Berkemeyer Publishers of Sellersville.
Just before my April 2002 presentation at the Mercer Museum, I visited Craven's former Studio, Art Gallery and attached home. The overall building is now a restaurant so you can walk right in. The main entrance is on the State Street side, same as the original front entrance to Craven's home. I sat at a table in what was formerly the home and ordered a "crème caramel." On that same side was the bar and kitchen. The dining area to the left of the entrance was at street level somewhat below the studio's original main floor elevation. This part is sometimes referred to as the "Flat Iron" Building. Steps along the wall on the Court Street side must have led up to Craven's Art Gallery and there is a 2-dimensional vestige of these steps remaining as part of the wall décor. Upstairs is still being used as an Art Gallery! All but one of the windows are the same as in Craven's time except one window has been added on the (north-west) Court Street side of the "Flat Iron" ---originally left blank in order to accomodate stairs coming up from the studio. Early photographs show a skylight, so there must have been plenty of light in this very spacious and impressive Art Gallery, now serving also as a banquet room.


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