Grasscloth

Grasscloth

John Ashbery first saw grasscloth used as a wall covering in the front hall of the Captain Throop house in Pultneyville (the home next door to his grandparents’).  It had been installed by his grandfather’s first cousin, Paul Holling, in about 1916.  Ashbery bought the grasscloth for the house at Wolf Weintraub and paint and wallpaper store in Hudson.