The home of 'the first American interior designer' - pastiche, hodgepodge, delight (?) - Beauport, the Sleeper-McCann House (格洛斯特) - Beauport, the Sleeper-McCann House - 251条旅客点评与比价

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The home of 'the first American interior designer' - pastiche, hodgepodge, delight (?)

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2026年07月26日发布于: 海外

点评：You are here for the story and the interior. The story belongs to a certain class, a certain time, and a certain set. The McCanns were the preservationists, Sleeper was the designer who built this personal showroom, and lived fabulously in it - in the manner of one does with friends like Isabella Stewart Gardner and their common link A. Piatt Andrew. The interior was carefully curated, although whether it 'works' today depends on how one feels about clutter and light. This shows best on a brilliantly sunny day, and even then some rooms feel a little dark (almost cramped sometimes in such a large structure, but that a function of tour group size - this place was meant to be lived in. One particularly bright airy, room is ready for a photo shoot in 2026 and certainly still influences anyone who aspires to the 'New England casual beach money' look - Martha Stewart is a major fan. Great views of Gloucester Harbor - the surrounding neighborhood itself is worth a drive around. The effect of all is calculated indolent rich - dropping notes to one another about gardens or hats / except that there was a lot effort expended to create the effect. Widely regarded as one of the most published houses in America, HF Dupont (the Winterthur DuPont) personally commended the estate after Sleeper's death to the McCanns as worth preserving in toto such was its significance

翻译：你来这里是为了欣赏故事与室内装饰。这个故事属于某个特定的社会阶层、某个特定的时代以及某个特定的圈子。麦肯一家是收藏保护者，斯利珀则是一位设计师，他打造了这座私人展览馆，并在其中过着奢华的生活——就像他与伊莎贝拉·斯图尔特·加德纳这样的挚友，以及他们共同的挚友A·皮亚特·安德鲁那样。室内的陈设经过精心搭配，不过如今它是否仍称得上“恰到好处”，则取决于人们对杂乱感与光线亮度的审美偏好了。这在阳光明媚的日子里表现得最为明显，即便如此，有些房间仍显得有些昏暗（在如此宏大的建筑中，这些房间有时甚至显得有些局促）。不过这与旅游团的规模有关——这里本来就是供人居住的。其中有一间格外明亮通风的房间，已经为2026年的摄影拍摄做好了准备；它无疑也影响着所有追求“新英格兰式随意海滨风情”风格的人——玛莎·斯图尔特就是它的忠实粉丝。格洛斯特港的景色美不胜收——周围的街区本身也值得驾车游览一番。整体氛围营造出一种慵懒而富足的感觉——人们彼此闲聊着花园或帽子之类的话题；不过实际上，为了营造这种效果可是付出了大量心血。HF杜邦庄园（即温特图尔·杜邦庄园）被广泛视为美国最受瞩目的豪宅之一；在斯利珀去世后，该庄园的主人也亲自向麦肯夫妇力荐说，这座庄园极具价值，值得完整保存。

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