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It was built in and named after Dreier's wife, Blanche "Snug" Dreier. Dreier ran the "Thomas Dreier Service" out of a print shop in the basement, which distributed advertising publications and motivational short stories to area business leaders. After Brown completed a project in to improve the grounds, it was featured in the August US edition of what was then known as Country Life Magazine.

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The house was also featured in advertisements for La Touraine coffee in newspapers throughout New England and New York. One of these was titled "Where Thomas Dreier Lives and Works," describing the household's reputation for hospitality. Thomas Dreier Keeps Here 21 Separate Accounts" notes the organization and careful approach of the matriarch, which leads her to serve La Touraine coffee.

Dreier wrote "Sunshine on the Business Trail" at Snug Gables, and several of the short stories within describe the house. Short works by Dreier are engraved on bronze plaques around the property. The Dreiers sold Snug Gables in After several short term tenants, and the Armstrong and Knox families, each of which owned it for more than a decade, it was purchased in by the noted physician Alexander Leaf.

It remained in the Leaf family until shortly after Alexander's death in Brown's architectural drawings and photos of the house are on file at Historic New England.

In he and his first wife, Blanche Nowell Dreier, moved to St. Petersburg, Florida.

Dreier's records also contain detailed information about the property, and are on file at the University of South Florida. Contents move to sidebar hide. Article Talk.