Dresser: Dresser (View 1)

This dresser was built by Wilbur and Orville Wright as a Christmas present for their mother, Susan Koerner Wright, in the late 1880s. The dresser is decorated with saw tooth trim on both sides of the top drawer. In 1914, Orville, Katharine, and Milton Wright moved out of the Wright family home in west Dayton to Hawthorn Hill in Oakwood, Ohio. At this time the dresser was given to the Wrights' brother, Lorin. Lorin passed the dresser on to his eldest son, Milton Jr., who gave it to his second son, Wilkinson. After Wilkinson 's death in 1999, he bequeathed the object to his children, Stephen Wright and Amanda Wright Lane, who donated the dresser to the National Park Service in 2013. Retaining excellent provenance within the Wright family, this object represents Dayton Aviation Heritage National Historical Park's mission to interpret and preserve the Wright brothers ' story from youths to famous aviators.