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MaddieM · (This post was last modified: 02-25-2014 11:35 AM by MaddieM.)

(02-23-2014 06:05 PM)Linda Anderson Wrote:
(02-23-2014 04:28 PM)MaddieM Wrote: Are there any photos of the interior of that house from that time?

The photos Betty posted are from the interior of the Washington D.C. house. It looks to me like there is a stair railing on the left side of the top picture. If so, that would mean that the stairs started on the right side of the central hall. The stairs went up half a flight then across a landing to the other side of the hall, then up half a flight to the next floor.

Here is a photo of the exterior of the Seward house in Auburn during the Civil War. The south side was added after 1865.

http://sewardhouse.org/gallery/southeast-before-1866/

This is a gallery of photos of the house after the renovations. I haven't seen any interior photos of the house before 1865 but the Seward House may have some. The spiral staircase was installed after 1865 as well.

http://sewardhouse.org/gallery/

They knew how to build houses in those days!

(02-23-2014 11:54 PM)BettyO Wrote: Just watched the Seward House show...OMG! Who WROTE and researched this?!?

Hearing a knock at the front door, Fred Seward opens it to confront a hatless "mysterious stranger." Powell attacks him in the downstairs vestibule as soon as he opens the door.

Where is Bell?!

Upstairs, Powell leaps onto the bed and stabs Seward. There is no altercation between Robinson and Powell. There is NO Robinson! "Gus Seward" pulls Powell from the bed. He flees.

Where is Fanny? Fred is shown walking around the bedroom holding a cloth to his head.....

Later, Powell is captured in the day time at "a boarding house" (Mrs. Surratt's house? Herndon House?!) while seated at a desk in his room, writing a letter. He is wearing the Navy garb he wore in prison.

Absolutely ghastly....this makes the old Sunn-Schick Lincoln Conspiracy look like something top notch!

One of the worse, if not THE worse thing I've ever seen. Absolutely no historical research was done whatsoever apparently. It was pure fiction; all made up....

Seward House should have known better! They are such a wonderful source and site....this whole thing was an embarrassing fiasco.

I've oft times wondered at why on earth anyone would want to make an historical movie/documentary and be half hearted about the finer details? It really gets my goat when you have high expectations and they can't even get costumes right, never mind the facts. I've not seen this of course, no doubt it'll filter through to the UK any day soon. But I feel your pain.

We had a TV series here in the UK called The Tudors. I love Tudor times and adore anything about this period in English history. But Henry the 8th, a notoriously fat, ginger haired tyrant was played by an actor with black hair and good looks, and all his wives wore lip gloss and mascara.

(02-24-2014 10:08 AM)BettyO Wrote: Mike, you hit the nail square on the head....

Horror movie it sure was....albeit a very, very short one - thank goodness!

You could tell it was done on the short end with NO budget whatsoever! Only thing they got right was Lew Powell's age and he looked somewhat good. Booth looked like Snidely Whiplash....

I had to Google that