The Homes of Our Ancestors

The men who made the Metropolitan Museum's American Wing

For her visit to the new American Wing at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Grace Coolidge dressed inconspicuously in a long fur-trimmed black coat, black silk dress, black velvet hat over her dark hair, and black shoes. A tea rose was pinned to the pale gray fur at the throat of the grieving First Lady’s coat; her 16-year-old son Calvin had died about a …