Now 75, Penny Parrish wonders what will become of a dollhouse her dad built that is a replica of her childhood home in Bensenville.
A lot of people remember their childhoods through photo albums or a cherished toy. Penny Parrish’s keepsake is rather more substantial — and that has become a problem.
But now she is 75, and she wonders what will become of the dollhouse that occupies a room in her Fredericksburg, Virginia, home. She has no children to whom she can leave it, her sister doesn’t have room for it, and though she believes it should be preserved as a piece of postwar suburban history, she’s found no takers among Illinois historical societies.
Her dad, Jess Parrish, was an Army veteran and IBM service engineer who had learned carpentry and other construction skills from his father, and he built the home with a pal. According to a ledger in which Jess Parrish and his wife, Jean. logged every expense, the entire job cost just over $11,000. man and woman could be proud of, where they could raise their children, have good schools and a lovely home.”
“When they sold the house, I told them they could not pitch the dollhouse,” Parrish said. “So they hauled it up to Michigan and it sat in the rafters of the garage there for a long time. When they sold that house in the 1990s, that’s when I took it.”
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