Illus. 426.—Fretwork
Balustrade,Garrett House,
Williamsburg.
The marks of bullets may still be seen in the wall at the right of the illustration. One of the daughters of Chief Justice Chew was the lovely Peggy Chew, who was one of the belles of the Mischianza fête, where Major André was her knight.
Illus. 427.—Stairs,
Valentine Museum,
Richmond.
Cliveden had many famous guests—Washington, Lafayette, John Adams, and others, who came to Philadelphia while it was the seat of the administration. The door at the right of the stair in Illustration [240] opens into a parlor, the mantel in which is shown in Illustration [425]. It is plain, but attractive for its simplicity.
The balustrade in Illustration [426] is in the house of the Misses Garrett in Williamsburg, Virginia, and is in a Chinese fretwork design. There is one with the same fretwork in the Paca house in Annapolis, and probably of the same date, about 1765. The winding staircase in Illustration [427] is in the house now occupied by the Valentine Museum, in Richmond, Virginia. It was built about 1812, and was given to the city for a museum, by the Valentine family. It is a very good example of the stairway known as a “winder.” Illustration [428] shows a beautiful mantel in the residence of Barton Myers, Esq., in Norfolk, Virginia.
Illus. 428.—Mantel in Myers House, Norfolk.
The mantel is in the Adam style, with festoons of flowers and scrolls beneath the shelf, in applied ornaments, and long lines of the bell-flower, looped in graceful lines upon the panel. The chandelier is brass, of about 1850-1860.