National Trust - Treasurer's House, York
Historic townhouse of period rooms beside the Minster, kept exactly as its fastidious last owner left it.
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This guide to Treasurer's House in York follows Frank Green, the exacting Edwardian bachelor who bought up the house piece by piece at the end of the eighteen-nineties and filled it with period rooms. It reaches back to his grandfather Edward Green and a Victorian invention for steam boilers that quietly made the family rich. Along the way you'll meet the wrapped coal, the famous temper and the gift to the National Trust in nineteen thirty. Best heard standing in one of the furnished rooms, with an eye on the floor.
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