The History of The Davenport... (Personal Paradise Photo Set)
🕑 Added 2024-07-23 01:49:39 +0000 UTCDavenport was the name of a series of sofas made by the Massachusetts furniture manufacturer A. H. Davenport and Company, a late 19th-century, early 20th-century American furniture manufacturer, cabinetmaker, and interior decoration firm. Based in Cambridge, Massachusetts, it sold luxury items at its showrooms in Boston and New York City, and produced furniture and interiors for many notable buildings, including The White House. The word "davenport," meaning a boxy sofa or sleeper-sofa, comes from the company. Due to the popularity of the furniture at the time, the name davenport became a generic trademark in parts of the United States.
It is used as a synonym for "sofa" or "couch" in some Great Lakes regions of the United States, especially the Upper Midwest and Buffalo, NY–Erie, PA areas. It was used in the Adirondack Region and the Tug Hill Plateau amongst those born there before World War II. The so-called davenports of the northern New York region are often sofa versions of the locally manufactured convertible Adirondack chair.
The word has come to mean a more formal sofa among the younger generations. In the Tug Hill and Adirondack regions in New York, a davenport may refer primarily to a couch which, like a modern futon lounge, converts on pivoting hinges from a sofa to a bed.
In other areas of North America, the word davenport is used for a futon-style sofa with storage under the seat area.
Do you call it a couch, a sofa, or a davenport?
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Comments
Built68
Beautiful set. Beautiful couch/home, too. Tyvm
Greg Smith
Bud, I'm from St, Louis too and I remember people calling their couch a "divan".
Bud March
Love the history lesson today, Danielle. Here in St Louis, my grandparents often referred to their sofa as a “ devan”. I thought it was “divan” but now know that the term had been shortened along the way somehow. Needless to say, whatever its called, you make it look positively luxurious here! ❤️
