May, 1918 
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From an old house in Maine was 
taken the design and detail for 
the second story stair, a beauti¬ 
fully proportioned element well 
placed in its setting 
The walls of the dining room are 
covered with murals of scenes in 
old Dutch towns. The furniture 
is Jacobean. Instead of silver, 
colored glass and pottery have 
been used on the sideboards 
All floors upstairs are painted 
dark gray and walls cream. In 
each bedroom is a large fireplace 
with mantel taken from old Salem 
houses. Wainscoting and cornices 
came from the same source. Lee 
Porter, decorator 
The color scheme of the 
drawing room is red and 
white — old red Queen 
Anne lacquer desk and 
curtains of red and yellow 
chintz. Floor teakwood, 
rug of tan velour 
The library is a reproduc¬ 
tion of a room in an old 
Portsmouth house. Wood¬ 
work is gumwood stained 
to resemble old pine. Floor 
painted in gray and white 
squares 
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