Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1924-11-16

| from houses of the seventeenth CEN
| fury which are still standing. These
both have great old brick treplaces,
| with round bake oven i'll the left
| hand corner. Also on this floor are
| original rooms Of the period from
Island: Hampton, y. H, and NeTing-
! ton, Conn.
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| 1t IS the first and second floors OF
| the American wing which will held
! for Neutrality-suspicious. and those, of this
vicinity the greatest interest. for
here are rooms taken from old houses
in Maryland and Virginia On the
! second floor one finds, beautifully re-
| installed. the old ballroom from
Gadshy's Tavern, Alexandria, wherein
Washington attended his last birth
night ball, February %, 1898. 1t was
| in this room that Lafayette was ten
dered q public dinner in 1924, and he
| wac dined here by the Masonic Lodge
! the following year.
Tho room dates from, 1893. The
walls are paneled only to the chair
rail, although the chimney breasts
are wood from floor to ceiling. There
| Is a hanging balcony for musicians,
as charming u feature as II Is un-
usual. The woodwork has been
/ to''iAttu Il iiSIL : a. ei-t!I, lei IL -
ducins- as exactly as possible thc
original color found under many
layers of more recent paint"
The furniture is almost all Of the
Chippendale model. Around the
room are set tables and chairs for
gaming, although the genial pro-
prietor of the tavern especially for
-bade all kinds of gambling" The
portraits on the walls Of this room
are by Gilbert Stuart.
Next to this famous room is a
highly decorated room from Mar
mlon, Prince Georges County. Vir-
gsuia, which stood % miles south of
Mount Vernon, Is miles from Fred
ericksburg, on the estate first owned
by William Fitzhugh There are
crude, rainted decorations on the
walls, carrying out the idea of thu
rocco influence of the period.
On this floor also il Il room from.
Oriole, Somerset County, Maryland.
Il thiS room the tall windo" EN-
brasures have window seats. There
are handsome she'll cupboardS flank
ing the fireplace. The mantel is Of
Siera marble; the wood is yellow
pine. The furnishings of the room
are examples of the Gabrielle period,
and the upholstered settee is prob
ably unique among American made
pieces There is an alcove on this
floor. with a paneled chimney breast
at the end. which also came from
Gadsby's Tavern and is closely as
ISOLATED with the life OF Washing ton.
The walls Of this alcove have an
English painted wallpaper.
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On the first floor the exhibition
gallery has a plaster cornico an ex-
act replica OF ono in the Octagor
House In this city. The arr he'd open
Tugs on tie cast. north and WC.t T. aIls
arc original ooilwcr from : hous.
in BaitIncre, built about 1910, ThC
chair rail and Dashboard repro
duce originals found in Homework
built IN 1909 for Charles Carroll
There is beautiful room from the
East Pratt street Baltimore house,
and there is a room from Petersburg
Va, most elaborate room, and a
direct successor to the Adam inte-
rtor OF the eighteenth century" Here
the walls are hung with old bright
yellow satin brocade Of a. shade and
design very popular In the period.
The furniture, all Of the Sheraton
type, Is mostly of the carved and
nodded variety. The wall treatment
employs Ionic pilasters raised on
pedestals supporting Il complete en-
tablature. Practically every avail
able surface is decorated
That these rooms should find per-
manert preservation - the Metro