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Emily Dickinson museum plans $2M project to restore period wallpaper, floor coverings and other decor The Emily Dickinson Homestead on Main Street in Amherst. STAFF PHOTO/CAROL LOLLIS Old wallpaper uncovered in a room in the Emily Dickinson Homestead. A restoration project aims in part to install period-style wallpaper here and in several other places in Dickinson’s home. Image courtesy Emily Dickinson Museum One of the parlors in the Emily Dickinson Homestead. Renovations will begin this spring to bring rooms and hallways in the house back to a condition as historically accurate as pos...

Amherst — The Emily Dickinson Museum, having made improvements to its facilities and grounds in recent years to increase their historical accuracy, is about to embark on what staff are calling “its most significant restoration project to date.” From the installation of period-style wallpaper and carpets, to the inclusion of decorative items and furnishings appropriate to the 1850s, the estimated $2 million project aims to return the home of Amherst’s most famous resident more fully to the look and feel it had during the poet’s adult lifetime. The Emily Dickinson Homes...

The poet, who died at age 55, started becoming well-known when the nearly 2,000 poems she wrote were published in 1890, four years after her death.