Join Kristen Weiss, site manager of Beauport, the Sleeper McCann House, and Historic New England's Curator of Fashion & Decorative Arts, Dr. Nora Ellen Carleson in a virtual exploration of the summer home of Henry Davis Sleeper, one of America's first professional interior designers. Learn about the man behind the house as well as the home and its dazzling and eclectic collection of curiosities, colored glass, folk art, and antiquities in every nook and cranny. With over forty rooms, each with their own unique theme, you'll learn how and why the home still fascinates and inspires collectors, designers, scholars, and nearly all who pass its thresholds today.

Dr. Nora Ellen Carleson is Curator of Fashion & Decorative Arts at Historic New England helping steward thirty-eight house museums and a collection of over 125,000 New England artifacts. A historian specializing in fashion, adornment, and design, prior to joining Historic New England, she held positions at Winterthur Museum, Garden & Library, The Maryland Center for History and Culture, Hillwood Estate, Museum, and Gardens among others.

Kristen Weiss is the site manager of Beauport, the Sleeper McCann House in Gloucester, Massachusetts and previously worked in the American Decorative Arts department at the Peabody Essex Museum. With an undergraduate degree in History and graduate work in Museum Studies and in Preservation Studies, Kristen has been working with museum collections and historic houses for over twenty-five years.