John Burrows, founder and proprietor of J.R. Burrows & Company has worked with Victorian and Arts & Crafts Movement design reissues since the early 1980s. During his childhood, mainly spent in Wisconsin, his family traveled frequently and visited historic sites throughout America and Europe. At age 16, he spent a summer working at the Pelham Puppet factory in Marlborough, Wilts., England - housed in a rambling collection of buildings along the willow-shaded banks of the River Kennett. During those months, he explored the same villages and pre-historic monuments that William Morris explored during his teen-age years at nearby Marlborough College. (By all accounts Morris would have much preferred a puppet factory to his life at the college!)
Mr. Burrows was educated at Grinnell
College in Iowa (nearby the famous "jewel box
bank" by Louis Sullivan), and received a MAH (Architectural
History) from the University of Virginia. He worked in the field of
historic preservation and with reproduction of 
Victorian
wallpapers before founding his own firm in Boston in 1985. Mr.
Burrows has lectured extensively across the United States on the
field of 19th century architecture and interior design, and has had
papers published in scholarly journals, as well as articles in
popular magazines. J.R. Burrows & Co. is located in the Ludo
Poole House (built in 1829) in Rockland,
Massachusetts.
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