1Franklin (28 Apr 1876 to Franklin, n. 2) was superintendent of construction of the Connecticut State Capitol, in Hartford, which took seven years (1872–79) to complete (Gray 1994, 70, 72 n. 32; Remetta and Vallera 2018).

2Leon Marcotte (1824–87), born in France and trained as an architect, was an interior designer and furniture maker, with shops in Paris and New York. According to a biographical essay published in 1994, his New York location was in “an elegant beaux arts building located on Union Square just off Fifth Avenue, a fashionable address for the period.” Specializing in interpretations of the Louis XV and Louis XVI styles, Marcotte was “renowned for the quality and artistic integrity of his interiors, furniture, and decorations, his awards at international expositions, and his work for many of America’s wealthiest and most socially prominent families.” Among his clients was Samuel Colt, the arms manufacturer, whose showplace Hartford home, Armsmear, he had decorated and furnished in the mid 1850s (Gray 1994, 49, 51–55, 61, 69–70, 72 n. 32).

3The Household Art Company, on Tremont Street in Boston, opened in 1873. It offered art works, furniture, tiles, imported English pottery, and decorations to customers of moderate incomes, not just to those wealthy enough to patronize establishments such as Marcotte’s (Brandt 2009, 71; Zukowski 2006, 73–74; “Decoration,” The Nation, 9 May 1878, ii).