August, 1908 



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first flight of stairs. 

 The landing on the 

 second floor is orna- 

 mented with two niches 

 for statues on either 

 side of a door that 

 opens into a room 

 over the hall. This 

 door is surmounted by 

 a broken pediment, 

 which, in this case, 

 happily contains an or- 

 nament. The details 

 are shown in No. VIII. 

 Doors at the top of 

 each flight of stairs 

 (see No. VIII) lead 

 into bedrooms. Above 

 the first landing behind 

 the clock (see No. Ill) 

 is a triple window, the 

 central pane of which 

 is arched. This win- 

 dow is shown from the 

 outside in No. V. 



The handsome door 

 (No. II), which, of 

 course, should have a 

 bust, vase, or other or- 

 nament in the center of 

 the broken pediment, 

 still carries its original 

 worked metal handle, 

 as does its companion 

 (see No. I). The 

 marble chimney-piece 



XIV — Mantel in the Brice House, Annapolis 



in this room is severely 

 plain and does not cor- 

 respond with the 

 doors. In all proba- 

 bility this was substi- 

 tuted for the original 

 carved one in the early 

 days of the nineteenth 

 century, when the 

 marble mantelpiece, 

 often imported from 

 Italy, became so fash- 

 ionable. 



Another chimney- 

 piece from the same 

 house appears in No. 

 IV. 



Very little Colonial 

 furniture is to be seen 

 in the Chase House, 

 but the visitor will not 

 fail to notice the china 

 cupboard containing 

 some choice pieces of 

 old china that stands 

 in the hall, and also 

 the two unique mir- 

 rors that may still be 

 seen. 



Another attractive 

 old house is the Har- 

 wood residence o n 

 Maryland Avenue and 

 King George Street, 

 appearing in No. 

 XIII. The Harwood 



XV — Brice House, Annapolis 



