It has long been the practice of wealthy U.S. museums and collectors to buy historic European buildings, then transport them beam and brick across the Atlantic. Last week the process was somewhat reversed; in Great Britain an American museum was open near the Regency resort town of Bath. Its purpose: to show the British just how their cousins lived from the landing of the Mayflower to the beginning of the present century.
Bath's American Museum is a project born of pique. For years the museum's foundersBritish-born Antique Dealer John Judkyn and Manhattan Psychiatrist...
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