A real life house with Portugese and Victorian Antiques
Posted by BJ Park on April 30th, 2008
Most of us arrange our houses according to our tastes and beliefs, and some of us actually spend quite a lot of money doing so. However, interior design is a most inadequate word when it comes to describing the home of Anthropologist Stephen L. Cabral.
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Cabral is an adjunct professor of Anthropology at Roger Williams University, and the University of Massachusettes at Dartmouth. However, he has a passion for Portugese history, as wel as Victorian History. He has collected several antiques and other collectables to theme his house in such a way, that each room of his, is a gallery of sorts.
In fact, so thorough and meticulous is his collection, that it is also the Luso American Gallery of Antiquities Inc., or LAGOA.
The theme, as the owner puts it is “an eclectic mix of high Victorian and Portuguese working class culture. “Blending the two is my challenge.” Some of his items include a wicker casket, saints, and a Holy Ghost Crown. The bedroom showcases the Civil war era, along with a Portugese tabernacle, and an old typewriter, and artwork.
Cabral says that he has a passion for the Victorian Era because he wanted to “create a place that kept civility alive”
The proceeds from the gallery go into a scholarship fund for promising Potuguese-American students.