‘Preserved: A Cultural History of the Funeral Home in America’By Dean G. Lamprosc.2024, Johns Hopkins University Press $34.95/374 pages Three bedrooms upstairs.
That’s a minimum. You need a big kitchen, a large back room would be a bonus, you want lots of bathrooms, and if you can get a corner lot, that’d be great.
The thing you need most is a gigantic all-purpose room or maybe a ballroom because you’re planning on a lot of people. As you’ll see in the new book “Preserved” by Dean G.
Lampros, not all living rooms are for the living. Not too long ago, shortly after he took a class on historic preservation, Dean Lampros’ husband dragged him on a weekend away to explore a small town in Massachusetts.