Illus. 401.—Parker-Inches-Emery
House, Boston, 1818.
Two of the Dalton chairs stand at the foot of the stairs, and above them hangs the portrait of Tristram Dalton, a fine gentleman in a white satin waistcoat. Over the stairs hangs a “hall lanthorne” like the one in Illustration [333].
Illustration [400] shows the side of a room in the Penny-Hallett house at 685 Centre St., Jamaica Plain. It dates to 1774, and is all elaborately carved by hand, with scrolls, birds, garlands of flowers and fruit, and a head over each arch at the side of the mantel. All of this woodwork has been removed, and embodied in a Boston house.
The house known by the names of past occupants as the Parker-Inches-Emery house is now occupied by the Women’s City Club of Boston, which is fortunate in being able to preserve this house from changes for business purposes.
Illus. 402.—Mantel in Lee Mansion, Marblehead, 1768.