Knowles Pump Works- Wonderful Old Folk Art Block Building folk art whimsey The unpasted (free) end papers

The unpasted (free) end papers at front and back (i

portraying a bit of the action and hung outside the theater as signage of sorts

Pretty straight forward

and all of the possibilities for display such staircases leading to nowhere might allow for

) I just think these are so lovely and will continue to grab them whenever I find them

Knowles Pump Works- Wonderful Old Folk Art Block Building folk art whimsey The unpasted (free) end papersOn the back of this little building is written "Knowles Steam Pump", pointing to Warren, MA, I believe, where the Knowles Steam Pump factory operated in the last quarter of the 1800s, prior to merging in 1897 to become Blake and Knowles and moving to East Cambridge, MA. And what a marvelous little building it is, made of a solid wooden block clad in perfect old white paint with graphite drawn windows, and enhanced through the addition of pitched roof,