Comments on: Famous Caves

Famous Caves

emilyd22222 — Wed, 28 Jul 2010 16:57:50 -0800

Feeling like you need something to balance the scent of sandalwood and musk after reading this list of famous man caves (including Jefferson's study, Douglass' office, Edison's library, and Roosevelt's trophy room)? If so, you may be interested in seeing the inner sanctums of some of history's most influential women. Check out Eleanor Roosevelt's living room (picture/info), Marie Curie's laboratory (picture/info), Margaret Mead's room in Samoa (picture/info), Maya Angelou's parlor (picture/info), Susan B. Anthony's study and bedroom (more pictures and info), Georgia O'Keefe's sitting room (picture, info), Helen Keller's childhood bedroom (picture, info), and Frida Kahlo's studio (picture 1, picture 2/info).

Previous historic or just plain cool rooms on Mefi: Famous writers' rooms. Arty hotel rooms. Anne Frank's secret annex.

By: Mblue

Mblue — Wed, 28 Jul 2010 17:05:47 -0800

Visited Seneca Falls on vacation last week and toured Elizibeth Stanton's house.

By: The Whelk

The Whelk — Wed, 28 Jul 2010 17:08:54 -0800

Can we just agree as a species to never use the term "Man Cave" unless it is literally a cave full of men?

By: The Whelk

The Whelk — Wed, 28 Jul 2010 17:10:26 -0800

that being said Queen Victoria's room at Brighton Palace was fascinating. Very simple and spartan (aside from the super-mattress) while Albert had a rooms upon rooms of ornate double-gilt bookish ostentation

By: GuyZero

GuyZero — Wed, 28 Jul 2010 17:12:42 -0800

Can we just agree as a species to never use the term "Man Cave" unless it is literally a cave full of men? I would expect that a cave composed of men or a cave in a man would also both fit the bill, albeit more disturbingly.

By: selenized

selenized — Wed, 28 Jul 2010 17:24:22 -0800

"Man Cave" should also fit the bill as a euphemism for.. well..

By: JHarris

JHarris — Wed, 28 Jul 2010 17:25:34 -0800

Have to say I'm hating the terminology too.

By: Mblue

Mblue — Wed, 28 Jul 2010 17:32:55 -0800

"Man Cave" should also fit the bill as a euphemism for.. well.. or um, or never mind, forget I said anything.

By: newmoistness

newmoistness — Wed, 28 Jul 2010 17:42:08 -0800

As long as we can still keep talking about priest holes.

By: vorfeed

vorfeed — Wed, 28 Jul 2010 18:03:28 -0800

As long as we can still keep talking about priest holes. As in "glory, glory hole-elujah"?

By: TheManChild2000

TheManChild2000 — Wed, 28 Jul 2010 18:25:21 -0800

I have a a major fetish for what I think of as 'personal studies' and think this is an amazing post. In an era of cubicles, it's the personal productive space that helps people retain their uniqueness. Mine is coming along, but isn't quite there yet. I've got the illuminated manuscript fragment, great grandad's bookstand, original System Shock concept art, and a near-complete collection of Solzhenitsyn's works... now I just need a really cool antique blotter then I will be totally there.

By: hippybear

hippybear — Wed, 28 Jul 2010 18:29:12 -0800

Somehow, this post won't feel complete without A Room Of One's Own.

By: resiny

resiny — Wed, 28 Jul 2010 18:56:13 -0800

Hemingway wins hands down.

By: julen

julen — Wed, 28 Jul 2010 19:18:31 -0800

Someone somewhere needs to write a good biting article/book/polemic/rant on the rise of the term "man cave" and how a media room/tv room/den became so firmly and distinctly gendered (as if women couldn't be interested in big, crisp TVs, sports, or anything so terribly uncouth, and as if men didn't really have real presence in their own homes and had to be relegated to one out-of-the-way space like an embarrassment who mars an otherwise "perfect" home). I suspect HGTV, the construction and real estate industry, and changing gender roles (and their eddies) are to blame. In any case, whenever I get in the mood to clean or straighten up my studio, I like to browse through the studio and art studio tags on Flickr and see how other people have organized their studios. It makes me envious and enervated. And a total idea thief. I also covet Anne Spencer's little writing cabin (outside and inside - scroll down for picture.)

By: Mister_A

Mister_A — Wed, 28 Jul 2010 19:22:10 -0800

Sandalwood is a right manly scent. Why is that?

By: Burhanistan

Burhanistan — Wed, 28 Jul 2010 19:49:57 -0800

None of these feature POÄNG chairs, unlike my awesome mancave, and thus are not worth mentioning.

By: RoseyD

RoseyD — Wed, 28 Jul 2010 20:30:21 -0800

Speaking of Hemingway . . . Sloppy Joe's 30th Annual Hemingway Look-Alike Contest Winner. The 'Papa' 2010, Charles Bicht of Vero Beach, FL.

By: zinfandel

zinfandel — Wed, 28 Jul 2010 20:37:31 -0800

None of these feature POÄNG chairs, unlike my awesome mancave, and thus are not worth mentioning. I AM SITTING IN A POÄNG CHAIR RIGHT NOW THEY ARE AWESOME ALSO INEXPENSIVE Nice post, by the way, emilyd22222. I will check out each and every one of these links.

By: schmod

schmod — Wed, 28 Jul 2010 21:03:50 -0800

Also worth mentioning that we can thank Jackie Kennedy for almost the entirety of the modern White House. (Little known fact, but the White House was gutted to its frame in the late 1940s)

By: schmod

schmod — Wed, 28 Jul 2010 21:05:37 -0800

I think Marie Curie's laboratory is haunted......

By: The Whelk

The Whelk — Wed, 28 Jul 2010 21:14:54 -0800

...by radiation.

By: jokeefe

jokeefe — Wed, 28 Jul 2010 23:08:31 -0800

Writers' Rooms, from the Guardian. I loved this series, and wish they had continued it.

By: jokeefe

jokeefe — Wed, 28 Jul 2010 23:11:49 -0800

Also, the Bronte Parsonage Museum.

By: zinfandel

zinfandel — Thu, 29 Jul 2010 11:59:26 -0800

Marie Curie's lab reminds me of this abandoned gym in Russia. And I want a place that looks like Susan B. Anthony's house on the outside, and Frida Kahlo's on the inside.