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AMERICAN HOMES AND GARDENS 



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The hall as seen from the entrance 



daughters spun the linen used in the house are still in place. 

 Across the hall from living-room and library is the 

 dining-room, and just beyond is a smaller dining-room with 

 its windows looking out over the lawn. Both rooms are 

 filled with treasures of old furniture and much antique brass 

 and Delft which has been in place for generations. More 

 white woodwork forms a background for old mahogany 

 furniture in tables and chairs and a chest of drawers which 

 holds a pair of silver candlesticks and a punch bowl. About 

 the old-fashioned fireplace are arranged old brass warm- 

 ing pans and a copper foot warmer, which are relics of the 



A bed chamber, once the refuge of Hessians 



days when beds were warmed in cold weather and when 

 foot warmers were regarded as necessary when a journey 

 was to be made in a sleigh over the hills and vales of Bergen 

 County. 



The smaller dining-room which is really a breakfast-room 

 contains many treasures of its own and a little china closet 

 holds many small objects of china and glass which, had 

 they the power of speech, could speak eloquently of the 

 domestic habits and household customs of days in the dim 

 and far distant past of their owners and honored guests. 

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The eastern end of the house, showing the width of the eaves and the unusual arrangement of columns about the doorway 



