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Handmade Dollhouse. Gift of Chris Crozier in honor of a creative gentleman, Bradley Folsom, 2006. Although Dollhouse Model 100 was billed in the advertising brochure as “a little girl’s dream,” Kennebunk school teacher Chris Crozier enjoyed hers as an adult. She purchased it locally from a well-known Kennebunk dollhouse maker, Brad Folsom (1929-1983). She made the furniture and décor herself and had the painting done by Richard Going, with the tableau on the lazy susan base done by Jane Anderson. Crozier’s dollhouse was one of approximately 300 that Brad Folsom built each year in over a dozen different styles at The House with the Blue Door, his workshop at 23 Portland Road in Kennebunk, Maine. Folsom had been an accountant for two decades but ultimately turned his sights to woodworking instead. Over the course of 16 years, Folsom built a national reputation for the quality, strength, and reasonable prices of his dollhouses. He took pride in their solid construction of seven-ply Baltic birch held together only by one-inch brads and not a drop of glue. His work was known by miniaturists throughout the country and written up in the New York Times, Boston newspapers and various hobby publications.
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