Museum Collection

Fayzer's Place 1-inch Scale House
Created and donated by museum members Fay and Joe Zerbolio

Joe designed and built the house with many of the features of their own home: an old-fashioned furnace, pipes in the basement rafters, the water heater, and the oil conversion tank. Joe also created the table saw, the bookcases, all doors and windows, floors, staircases, the flickering fireplace, and the front edge lighting.

Fay furnished the dollhouse and added the decorative touches. She made the curtains, wingback chairs, and bedspreads. She stitched the rug, seat cushions, pillows, and samplers. Their children and pets are represented.

For Fay, the house was a labor of love, and for Joe, it is what he did for LOVE.

Visitors are transported into a world in miniature through the skills of artisans from around the nation, as well as from many remarkably talented local miniaturists. Scales range from 1:6 (for “Barbie” -sized dolls) and 1:12 (“typical” dollhouse where one inch equals 12 inches) to 1:24 (half-inch scale), 1:48 (quarter-inch scale), 1:144 (1/12 of an inch scale — doll house in a doll house) and even micro miniatures!   

Article from Chambers on the Road