Blast from the past

I wish that I could say that I spent the last few months gallivanting around somewhere fun, but alas, I've been a dull girl.

I did have a spectacularly bright moment in my day today, when I stumbled across these photos from the Historic House Trust of New York City's winter 2010 newsletter. If you aren't overly familiar with historic preservation nonprofits in New York (and why aren't you?!), the Historic House Trust helps run many of the city's "houses of architectural and cultural significance," such as Gracie Mansion, the Merchant's House Museum, and the Queens County Farm Museum.

In addition to their regular business of restoration and education and all that good jazz, the Historic House Trust puts out one of the most interesting newsletters out there. Interested in the thin line between collecting and hoarding? Alice Austen's "Boston marriage"? Trust the Trust.

In any case, they produced an utterly brilliant photoshoot the winter before last, featuring lovely ladies dressed in period duds posing in historic homes, alongside matching architectural/design features:





Don't these just slay you? I mean, these shots are worthy of the glossiest of glossies, but it's somehow so much more glorious that a band of preservationists concocted this idea. Makes me want to don my '40s Sunday best and bust into Admiral's Row... although that may not be what those Historic Homies had in mind.