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When you talk with Mrs. Arthemise Blossman about The Doll House, you hear “love” a lot. Her love for babies started the doll collection. Her love for Victorian architecture prompted the style of The Doll House. Her love for animals gave The Doll 1	'^e real purpose.
The collection began when Mrs.
Blossman visited a large toy store in New York. There, in the toy store window, she saw “Tonino”, a beautiful baby doll, sitting in a highchair. It was love at first sight. Mrs. Blossman later discovered the reason for her attraction to Tonino, when she found a photograph of her son, as a baby, sitting in a highchair.
The two looked amazingly alike.
Her next doll “Mimi”, was bought in secret. It’s humorous to imagine Mrs. Blossman creeping to a private room in her home to examine her newest treasure. It seemed like fate, when she discovered her new doll said,
“Mimi”, not “Mama”, like most others, because all of Mrs.
Blossman’s grandchildren call her “Mimi”. After this, Mrs.
Blossman was hopelessly hooked on her new hobby, and the collection grew.
Although Mrs. Blossman does have some antique dolls, and
some valuable dolls, she admits that hers is not a collector’s collection. It is simply a doll lover’s collection.
And after thirty years, with hundreds of dolls of every description, doll houses, and stuffed animals, Mrs. Blossman had a problem. The collection had grown too large for her home. Something had to be done.
Mrs. Blossman and her husband have always been very community-minded, so the solution was clear. They would build a home for the dolls where
children, of every age, could come and see them.
The Doll House was officially opened on June 29th, 1987. It’s a lovely blue and white Victorian house with six viewing rooms. And it can accommodate groups of up to twenty-five people at one time.