February, 1909 
shelf opposite the 
entrance door. 
Those who are 
familiar with one of 
the earliest house 
plans of our fore- 
fathers understand 
the compact placing 
of one spacious 
chimney in the cen- 
ter of the building. 
This gave openings 
into the kitchen or 
living-room at the 
back of the staircase 
and into a room at 
the right and left of 
the front hall. At 
the present time the 
west chamber, at 
the right, is made 
into a dining-room. 
The low, white- 
painted wainscot is 
constructed of solid 
planks, and the wall 
space above is 
papered with a rose- 
trellis design. Thelj 
dining table is a rare specimen of a style that was in favor 
before our modern extension came into vogue. Its center is 
a drop-leaf table that, for occasions of extra entertaining, 
could be enlarged by joining to it at each end a side table 
with rounded fronts. The legs are of the tapering pattern 
of the late eighteenth century. 
A mahogany secretary with tambour fronts has a cabinet 
for china resting on the upper part. The Sheraton card 
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table between the 
windows is one of a 
pair of this favorite 
model. 
Another view of 
the dining-room 
shows a_ sideboard 
on Sheraton lines, 
with an open cup- 
board fitted into the 
corner wall for 
holding china. The 
old lamps on _ the 
sideboard are a part 
of a large collection 
of pewter, brass and 
glass that has been 
fitted up and put to 
use throughout the 
house. 
The east chamber 
is a parlor, but not 
in the formidable 
sense of being a 
‘‘keeping-room,”’ as 
a feeling of com- 
fortable habitation 
emanates from the 
low ceiling, deep- 
silled windows and broad fireplace. In this room are some 
chairs of different patterns, the Governor Carver and Wind- 
sor that appear in the illustration, besides an upholstered 
Martha Washington arm-chair of commodious pattern, and 
side chairs of Chippendale and Heppelwhite design. 
The card table under the shelf-clock has a plainer leg 
than the one in the dining-room, but is relieved by lines of 
inlay. Two very old metal lamps without chimneys or 
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The exterior of the homestead 
