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Lisa M. Minardi

Lisa M. Minardi

Lisa M. Minardi is a leading scholar of the Muhlenberg family. Minardi wrote a study of the family for her undergraduate thesis at Ursinus College and an architectural study of their three 18th century houses in Trappe, Pennsylvania for her master’s thesis in the University of Delaware-Winterthur Program in Early American Culture. In addition to serving on the board of The Speaker’s House and chairing its restoration committee, Minardi is the assistant curator of furniture at the Winterthur Museum, where she is working on a major exhibition and publication on southeastern Pennsylvania furniture for 2011. To learn more about Frederick Muhlenberg or The Speaker’s House, please visit http://www.speakershouse.org/

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Reading Between the Lines: Rediscovering the Home of a Founding Father

April 2009 (Volume 4, Issue 2)
In 2004, the Pennsylvania home of Frederick Muhlenberg (1750-1801)—first and third Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives—was saved from the wrecking ball by a grassroots effort. The Speaker's House, as it is known today, was built in 1763-64 and is located in the historic colonial village of Trappe, Montgomery...

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