February, 1914 
HOUSE AND GARDEN 
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simplification of some Sheraton designs. 
These, with the chairs appearing in the 
other bedrooms, indicate the number of 
varieties of forms available for the present- 
day householder who furnishes along the 
Colonial precedent. Such chairs as are in 
this room are being reproduced to-day, 
either in the mahogany form or the black 
lacquer type. 
Some relics of the time when the house 
was occupied appear in the Franklin stove 
which was presented by its famous in¬ 
ventor after he visited the house, and a cup 
and saucer once used by Daniel Webster. 
Directly across the hall from the Cod- 
dington Chamber is the nursery. Tradition 
relates that, fleeing from the British, John 
Hancock took refuge in this apartment. 
Be this as it may, we find scratched with a 
diamond on a pane of glass the initials J. 
H.; on another, in similar writing, “You I 
love, and you alone.” Among the pieces of 
furniture is a linen chest once owned by 
the wife of William Penn, and a breakfast 
table of John Hancock. Madam Burr em¬ 
broidered the bedspread on homespun linen 
and quilted it with her own hands. It was 
formerly used in her guest chamber during 
Dorothy Quincy’s enforced stay in the 
house. 
The most interesting room in the house 
is where many of the Quincy children were 
born. The old Field bedstead has hang¬ 
ings of genuine old chintz, while the bed¬ 
spread is homespun and in a most original 
design. The furniture here consists mainly 
of the tall ladder-backed, rush-bottomed 
chairs. That by the fireplace is an interest¬ 
ing type, a development of the late seven¬ 
teenth century, showing Chinese influence, 
and is a lacquered wood in imitation of 
bamboo. 
In the furnishing of all the bedrooms the 
wall papers are particularly well chosen. 
That in this room shows the grouping of 
flower motives in disjointed islands, where 
the detail is massed. This was common to 
the printed papers and chintzes of the mid¬ 
dle of the eighteenth century. Flower mo¬ 
tives and bird motives were particularly 
prominent. As the century drew to a close, 
the massing of these details became sepa¬ 
rated, and the papers looked as though 
sprays of flowers or leaves in serpentine 
designs were allowed to run wild upon the 
walls. The paper in the bachelors’ bed¬ 
room is a fair representation of this style. 
The little figured patterns in the Dorothy 
Quincy bedroom are found in reproduction 
quite commonly here to-day, and rightly 
suggest Georgian days. 
One of the most important rooms in the 
house is the guest, or bridal, chamber. This 
is over the parlor, and was slept in by 
Washington, Benjamin Franklin, Sir 
Harry Frankland, and in later days by 
Gen. Grant. The bed which is now in the 
room was built for the use of Lafayette. 
Under the four-poster is a little trundle- 
bed that was used by the children after 
they had graduated from the cradle. This 
could be pulled out at night and hidden 
during the daytime. The Windsor and 
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