. Historic homes of New England . olumns; thehall is lighted by a fan-light and sidelights oneither side the wide, hospitable door. The ex-terior is painted white, as it always has feature of the house is the wide original small-paned windows have beenkept, so that the exterior remains practicallyunchanged. Who the carver was is unknown. Itmust be remembered that in those days shipcarvers were employed to work upon the orna-mentation of the ships, so that it was probablysome one employed by the Daltons on their vesselswho designed and carried out the carving of thewoodwor
. Historic homes of New England . olumns; thehall is lighted by a fan-light and sidelights oneither side the wide, hospitable door. The ex-terior is painted white, as it always has feature of the house is the wide original small-paned windows have beenkept, so that the exterior remains practicallyunchanged. Who the carver was is unknown. Itmust be remembered that in those days shipcarvers were employed to work upon the orna-mentation of the ships, so that it was probablysome one employed by the Daltons on their vesselswho designed and carried out the carving of thewoodwork, both on the exterior and in the interior. The entrance door gives into a large hall withwonderfully fine panellings on either side. Eachof the three balusters has a different design. Thestairs are box stairs leading by low treads to awide landing, where a colonial window admits aflood of light to the hall. A second low flightof stairs leads to the second story, where the hallcorresponds with the lower one. It is here the [198]. 3O ao Q C4 uex t3 3O eo Q U o X wh<
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