| The original Studio of the Lost and Beautiful Past seen in the three smaller photographs at the left, was located in historic Loudoun House, headquarters of the Lexington Art League in Lexington,Kentucky. Loudoun was constructed in 1852 for Francis Key Hunt. The architect was A.J.Davis, the same architect who did the house Lyndhurst which was featured in the two Dark Shadows motion pictures. The earliest studio was in the tower. My second studio was in one of the large 2nd floor bedchambers. You can see it in the daylight view of the back of the house, the room with the triple moulded windows. In so many ways for eight years, my studio at Loudoun was far more my home than my actual residence. Inevitably, there comes in the life cycle of an organisation a point where it loses sight of its original purpose and in the process alienates those who had been most devoted to its ideals and it becomes time to move on. Additionally, what you do to my friends and to colleagues that I respect you also do to me, and therefore lose my once ardent support. While I sometimes still miss my studio in that haunted old Gothic villa, it can be seen in the three larger pictures at the right that my new studio is also thoroughly steeped in the glories of the past. I now own my studio in a circa 1886 Queen Anne Cottage with the good light and the high ceilings I once enjoyed at Loudoun. |
| Loudoun in the fog-photo by Polly Singer |
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