. Historic homes of New England . Plate LXXXIX. — Kitchen, Quincy Mansion ; Parlor,Quincy Mansion. THE QUINCY MANSION has been recently restored by the Colonial Damesof Massachusetts, who have brought back as faras possible its old-time dignity. In the restora-tion, great care has been taken with the furnish-ing. The central hall is entered through the colo-nial porch. It is long and wide, wainscotted andshowing above this an odd, colonial paper, rep-resenting an English hunting scene. The balus-ter and newel-post are hand carved and fine ex-amples of the early work of that period. At the righ
. Historic homes of New England . Plate LXXXIX. — Kitchen, Quincy Mansion ; Parlor,Quincy Mansion. THE QUINCY MANSION has been recently restored by the Colonial Damesof Massachusetts, who have brought back as faras possible its old-time dignity. In the restora-tion, great care has been taken with the furnish-ing. The central hall is entered through the colo-nial porch. It is long and wide, wainscotted andshowing above this an odd, colonial paper, rep-resenting an English hunting scene. The balus-ter and newel-post are hand carved and fine ex-amples of the early work of that period. At the right of the hall is the dining-room,hung with a quaint Chinese paper. This roomshows high wainscot, wooden shutters, and theoriginal beams cased in. The furniture is all ofthat period, including simple Dutch chairs, about1770, with rush bottoms. The sideboard, too, isof the seventeenth century, and on this is a knifebox of the latter quarter of this century. Thecorner buffet is about 1740, and unlike the major-ity of these cupboar
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