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Paul and Ginger Cook with the dollhouse Paul built after Ginger's mother gave up on
building it herself. The dollhouse takes up residence in the bay window of their home
in Wayne.
Residents complete

what mom started

By Carolyn Marnon Germany, and the dollhouse came
“My mother was very imaginative along with their household goods.
and creative and crafty,” says Wayne While in Germany for five years,
resident Ginger Cook. It was a great the little house got painted, had wall-
surprise that when her mother paper installed, and then the hard
bought a dollhouse 40 years ago, she part, the furniture, was tackled. The
wasn’t able to put it together. majority of the furniture in this tiny
When Ginger was staying with residence was handmade by Paul in
her mom in Florida in 1980, the doll- one-inch scale where an item is
house lay unassembled with 100s of measured in feet and then reduce to
pieces in disarray. Ginger’s husband, that size in inches. Paul made beds,
Paul, took it upon himself to build tables, a Queen Anne cabinet and a
the dollhouse that was purchased as baby’s cradle that rocks. One of the
a kit. most interesting pieces of furniture,
It took some time, but Paul was says Ginger, is the 1950’s-style refrig-
able to build the dollhouse, get the erator in the kitchen.
rooms divided, glue on the shingles An antique coat rack in the living
tediously one by one, and then add a room was duplicated from one in
porch. By the time he finished, the
young Cook family was moving to See House, page 12

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