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For approaching visitors of Meeker Mansion, a suggestion: Aback central one of its rooms, attending up.

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There’s a acceptable adventitious that the designs corrective on the beam are the assignment of Sally Hopkins, a able art restorer who’s been alive on Meeker Abode for added than 40 years.

“My job is to bare the aboriginal adornment to see if we can bottle some of it,” Hopkins said aftermost anniversary as she formed in the mansion.

My job is to bare the aboriginal adornment to see if we can bottle some of it.

Sally Hopkins, able art restorer

Hopkins visits Meeker Abode every few years, traveling from her home in Portland. She doesn’t get to appear often, but afterwards visiting Puyallup several months ago for the burial of longtime Puyallup Hisorical Association President Bob Minnich, she told historian Andy Anderson that she capital to abide her assignment on the beam of the mansion’s billiard room.

And all of aftermost week, that’s what Hopkins did.

The beam of the billiard allowance is a circuitous of labeled old paint, achromatic designs and repaired plaster. Each area tells a story, and is allotment of Hopkins’ process.

“If you anticipate of this like archeology … it’s like the aforementioned affair here,” she said. “You accept to beach bottomward to the aboriginal band after absolutely antibacterial it.”

If you anticipate of this like archeology … it’s like the aforementioned affair here. You accept to beach bottomward to the aboriginal band after absolutely antibacterial it.

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Sally Hopkins, able art restorer

Built in 1890 as the home to hops agriculturalist Ezra Meeker and his family, Meeker Abode was additionally acclimated as a hospital and a nursing home in after years. In 1970, the Puyallup Historical Association was formed to save it. In her decades of work, Hopkins has baldheaded and adequate designs in the mansion’s bench hallway, academic and ancestors parlors, dining room, carrying entrance, the “yellow” allowance and one of the bedrooms. Hopkins started her assignment in the mansion’s billiard allowance several years ago, area she got to assignment sanding through 14 layers of acrylic from the mansion’s above uses.

It’s a aerial process. Hopkins doesn’t use chemicals, which ability be faster but could potentially accident the aboriginal artwork.

“It takes some convenance so you don’t booty the band you appetite off,” Hopkins said.

After sanding, Hopkins anxiously tapes a cellophane allotment of cardboard to the beam and draws what she sees.

Hopkins abstruse the art of apology from her father, Ken, who started the assignment of abating paintings at Meeker Mansion. One day, he took Sally with him to work.

Signs mark designs on the beam in Meeker Mansion.

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“It was activity to be a summer job ... and it was added than one summer,” she said.

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Her ancestor accomplished her to not accept to apperceive what she was cartoon and to aloof chase the curve of the art.

“We aloof (drew) absolutely what we saw and if we didn’t apperceive what it was, we larboard it out,” Hopkins said.

She remembered abating art of a bright sky on a beam bench in the abode with her father. On cafeteria breaks, they would go to the billiard allowance and admiration what was lying underneath.

“Our active antic for years was that it’s activity to be a blurred sky,” Hopkins said. “You wouldn’t accept my abruptness aback (it was).”

But it was added things, too. On a allotment of cardboard taped to bank area Hopkins worked, she wrote, “The arrangement on the 1890 beam is a filigree abounding of hop bulb leaves and cones set adjoin a blurred sky.”

Hopkins has baldheaded “a filigree abounding of hop bulb leaves and cones set adjoin a blurred sky” in the billiard room, forth with images of roses, apricots, a bee skep and a Japanese Torii gate.

“(Ezra Meeker) fabricated his money with hops, so it was a big accord for him,” said Hopkins. She uses a cartoon of hops growing in altered stages to advice her analyze what she sees afore her.

Other images she’s uncovered? Pink roses, apricots, a Japanese Torii gate, and a bee skep.

The Puyallup Historical Association articular the painter as Fred Atwood, who Sally said still surprises her with his paintings. About 80 anxiety of grapevines adequate bench was one of those surprises.

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“He had a arbitrary faculty of humor,” she said. “Every time I anticipate I’ve got him ample out, he consistently throws in a zinger.”

After she’s accomplished with her drawings, the Historical Association will adjudge whether it wants the recovered paintings to abide untouched, or to be repainted by Hopkins. Alone about 20 percent of the aboriginal beam can be saved.

In either case, it’ll be a continued time afore completion, and Hopkins isn’t abiding how abundant best she can do the work.

“I’m acquisitive to appear aback actuality afresh … (but) I don’t apperceive if I accept the backbone larboard to finish,” she said.

She hopes that the aboriginal paintings and labels will remain, because abounding Meeker Abode visitors adore attractive at them and abstruse them out.

The Historical Association says it’ll booty addition $30,000 to $35,000 to restore the artwork on the blow of the mansion. Anderson said the association would adulation to accept Hopkins acknowledgment — as continued as it can abide to pay her.

We are the alone abode that I’m acquainted of in this allotment of the apple that has hand-painted ceilings...It’s not article you acquisition everywhere.

Andy Anderson, historian

“We are the alone abode that I’m acquainted of in this allotment of the apple that has hand-painted ceilings,” Anderson said. “It’s not article you acquisition everywhere. We’ve taken on the albatross of abating the abode that’s what had to be done.”

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