著者
杉山 恵子 Keiko SUGIYAMA
雑誌
恵泉女学園大学紀要 = Keisen University Bulletin
巻号頁・発行日
vol.27, pp.29-55, 2015-02

American architect, H.H.Richardson designed the Glessner House(1885-1887) in Chicago for the industrialist, John J. Glessner. First, I will argue that the house was important in terms of its collaboration with the architect and client for making an ideal residence. Then, I will present how space in the House was actually negotiated between wife and husband, and boundaries were drawn between master and servants. The introduction of the Arts and Crafts Movement played a crucial role for the wife to use these spaces for her public purposes. Finally, I will show that during the 1930s and the 40s, Frances Glassner Lee, the daughter, made crime scene doll houses for police detective training. Her anger towerds domestic violence, and her strong desire to eradicate it, are represented inthe dolls as victims. Her construction of the doll houses, thus, was for from the ideals of her father. Examining the Glassner House presents a key for a deeper understanding of dynamism of social class and gender at the turn of century.