Dining room with small brick fireplace and mural of a ship painted on the wall. "Vermont House Dining Room" written on back. Courtesy Shelburne Museum.
The paneled room end in the Vermont House at Shelburne Museum came from an early 18th century house near Essex, Connecticut. An arched lintel is an uncommon feature of a New England house. The ball and steeple andirons are of the late 18th or early 19th century. Courtesy Shelburne Museum
Hope Lodge, near Philadelphia, was built in the first half of the 18th century. A bedroom fireplace is framed with tiles from Holland, as are several others. The use of two horizontal panels over the fireplace is a typical procedure of the period. Courtesy Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission.