Picturesque Washington: pen and pencil sketches of its scenery, history, traditions, public and social life, with graphic descriptions of the Capitol and Congress, the White House, and the government departments .. . al hall extends from the frontdoor to the rear, and there is a spacious staircase to the storyabove. On the front door is the huge brass knocker used by theguests of Washington to announce their arrival. A prominentobject in the hall is the Key of the Bastile, presented to Wash-ington by Lafayette in 1789, soon after the famous French prisonwas destroyed. There are six apartments
Picturesque Washington: pen and pencil sketches of its scenery, history, traditions, public and social life, with graphic descriptions of the Capitol and Congress, the White House, and the government departments .. . al hall extends from the frontdoor to the rear, and there is a spacious staircase to the storyabove. On the front door is the huge brass knocker used by theguests of Washington to announce their arrival. A prominentobject in the hall is the Key of the Bastile, presented to Wash-ington by Lafayette in 1789, soon after the famous French prisonwas destroyed. There are six apartments on the ground floor,namely : the banquet-hall, the music-room, the west parlor, the familydining-room, Martha Washingtons sitting-room, and the library-room. The Mount Vernon Association has furnished the rooms withancient pictures, tables and chairs, and other articles, some of whichwere the property of Washington. The banquet-hall, or the state-parlor, as it was frequently called,is a fine large apartment in the north extension, which in its day wasrichly adorned and furnished. It has a high ceiling with designs instucco, and its walls are painted gray and have a wide frieze. At 286 PICTURESQUE WASHINGTON*.. one side is a fire-place, around which is a beautifully carved mantel ofCarrara marble, wrought in Italy, it is supposed by Canova. It hasthree panels in which are scenes of agricultural life. It was presentedto Washington by an English gentleman, and it is related that thevessel bringing it to the United States was captured by pirates. Whenthey learned that the mantel was intended for Washington they for-warded it to him uninjured. Extending across the western end ofthe apartment is a colossal painting by Rembrandt Peale, entitled Washington at Yorktown, which was presented to the Mount Ver-non Association in 1873. In a glass case is a model of the Bastile,the gift of Lafayette ; and in the apartment is also the celebratedarm-chair which came over in the Mayflower. In th
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