Surflight Theatre’s 2020 Holiday show, “We Need a Little Christmas,” is set in a home in Maine. And it is quite the home, what with its 10 bedrooms and its “Big House, Little House, Back House, Barn” design.
The architectural style was developed in New England in the 18th and 19th centuries, and if you drive through the state of Maine, you will see plenty of surviving, stunning, very large and mostly white examples.
The Big House contains the bedrooms and parlors of the complex, where the family lives.
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