Franklin Vagnone brings house museums to life through One Night Stand, a series of essays chronicling his sleepovers in historic sites, 
 
In this highly illustrated presentation, Vagnone, a third-generation Sicilian immigrant descendant, describes staying at Chicago’s Glessner House and how this experience unveiled meaning to him personally and spoke to a universal Italian-American cultural experience.

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One Night Stand blogs shift cultural perceptions of historic house museums away from viewing them solely as public museums and present a more intimate and tactile appreciation of them as places of private, domestic life. They highlight nuanced narratives that see these historic sites as vessels for life, social issues, politics, and habitation – not merely as repositories for decorative objects and collections of artifacts. Vagnone spends the night, uses the furniture and experiences the home—helping us see beyond the velvet rope.