page_title: R. Lee Taylor
section_title: Career
hierarchical_section_title: R. Lee Taylor / Career
caption_attribution_description: English: Museum of the Shenandoah Valley
context_page_description: R. Lee Taylor was the curator of the Museum of the Shenandoah Valley and a nationally known creator of miniature houses.
context_section_description: R. Lee Taylor served during World War II and took part to the Normandy landings. After the war, he moved to New York City, where, in 1947, at 23 years old, he met Julian Wood Glass Jr., at the time 37 years old and an executive working for the petroleum industry.
  In 1955, together with Glass, Taylor restored Glass's ancestral home, Glen Burnie, a Georgian-style home which Glass inherited from his father. Now the house is part of the Museum of the Shenandoah Valley. Taylor helped also Glass in searching the 18th and 19th century European and American fine and decorative arts for his collection.
  In 1957, Taylor moved full-time into the Glen Burnie House and managed the site. He also created the surrounding gardens. In 1997, five years after Glass' death, the house opened as a museum; Taylor was the curator and lived on the second floor. Taylor retired in 1998 but continued to live at Glen Burnie House until his death in 2000.
  The museum is hosting Taylor's collection of miniature houses, the masterpiece the miniature of the Glen Burnie House, created between 1988 and 1990. A book about the collection has been published in 2005, R. Lee Taylor Miniatures - The Valley's Tiny Treasures edited by Marge Lee.
  For his work in the Glen Burnie House's gardens, Taylor was honored by the Garden Club of Virginia. His miniature houses were featured in specialized publications like Nutshell News and Treasures in Miniature.
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