Editing Sister Parish (section)

== Early life ==
Sister Parish was born Dorothy May Kinnicutt on July 15, 1910, in [[Morristown, New Jersey]].  Her parents were [[G. Hermann Kinnicutt]] and May Appleton Tuckerman.<ref name=":0">{{Cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1994/09/10/obituaries/sister-parish-grande-dame-of-american-interior-decorating-is-dead-at-84.html|title=Sister Parish, Grande Dame of American Interior Decorating, Is Dead at 84|last=Pace|first=Eric|date=1994-09-10|newspaper=The New York Times|issn=0362-4331|access-date=2016-11-21}}</ref>  Parish was born at home in a four poster bed.<ref name=":1">{{Cite news|url=http://www.architecturaldigest.com/story/parish-article-012000|title=Design Legends: Sister Parish | last=Aronson|first=Steven M. L.|magazine=Architectural Digest|access-date=2016-11-21}}</ref>  Her paternal grandfather was Francis Kinnicutt, [[Edith Wharton]]'s doctor and close friend.<ref name=":2">{{Cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/books/00/08/20/reviews/000820.20norwict.html|title=Interiors|work=The New York Times|access-date=2016-11-21}}</ref>  In addition to their New Jersey house, the family had homes in Manhattan, Maine, and Paris.<ref name=":0" />  She was given the nickname Sister by her three-year-old brother Frankie.<ref name=":3">{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=IM08x5y9CnIC&q=sister+parish+obituary&pg=PT14|title=Sister Parish: The Life of the Legendary American Interior Designer|last1=Bartlett|first1=Apple Parish|last2=Crater|first2=Susan Bartlett|last3=Williams|first3=Bunny|date=2012-10-28|publisher=Abrams|isbn=9780865653023|language=en}}</ref>

As a child, Parish attended [[The Peck School]] in New Jersey, in the fall and spring.  During the winter, she attended [[Chapin School]] in New York.<ref name=":3" />  Later, she boarded at [[Foxcroft School]] in Virginia.<ref name=":3" />

Parish was a debutante in 1927.<ref name=":2" /> Once she had completed high school, her parents expected her to marry, and on [[Valentine's Day]] 1930, Kinnicutt married banker Henry Parish II at [[St. George's Episcopal Church (Manhattan)|St. George's Episcopal Church]] in Manhattan.<ref name=":3" />

After the wedding, the couple lived on [[East End Avenue]] in Manhattan (in an apartment done by a decorator), followed by a farmhouse on Long Lane in [[Far Hills, New Jersey|Far Hills, NJ]] which Parish decorated herself.<ref name=":0" />  In decorating the Long Lane house, Parish found her own sense of style.  She painted wood furniture white and used cotton fabrics such as ticking stripe.  She experimented with brightly painted floors. Parish's new home was lighter and more casual than other high society homes of the 1930s.<ref name=":3" />

Parish spent most of her summers in her house in [[Islesboro, Maine]].<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2000/08/17/garden/at-home-with-apple-parish-bartlett-behind-the-chintz-curtain-the-legacy.html |title=AT HOME WITH/Apple Parish Bartlett; Behind the Chintz Curtain, the Legacy |work=The New York Times|date=17 August 2000|access-date= 2017-04-27}}</ref>