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^{Worth a return visit, just to shoot more film.}

Ayer Mansion

• Built at a point in 1899 to 1902, Ayer mansion is the last surviving, intact residential commission of Louis Comfort Tiffany.
• As of 2005, the U.S Department of the Interior named it a National Historic Landmark, the highest distinction a site could receive!
• Born in Connecticut, the year 1822, Ayer obtained a sixth grade education and still became a successful businessman, founding a patent medicine company with brother, Dr. James C. Ayer.
• Pioneered the interior design concept of viewing houses as a unity, all pieces working in concert.
• It pains to inform yet, all other houses of Tiffany design faced destruction, even his summer home on Long Island, Laurelton Hall, lost to fire in 1957.
• Ayer Mansion is indeed the last house ‘designed from inception’ by Louis Comfort Tiffany.

Little known sites of history like this one, are the reason I cannot be satisfied with just packing up my belongings and shipping off to some other metropolis in the hopes of striking it rich. I create, using elements of my environment, and little else. This is what drives the essence of my creativity, and I'm closer to finer pieces every day.

^{Suddenly, I have found a way to be Wild and free, there's a path ahead of me. -- Alexa Harley}