The Dining Room is the largest and most ornate room in the house. This room yielded one of the most exciting discoveries of the restoration—the plasterwork panels on the walls (read more about the panels).

Dimensions: 26'-½" x 18'-7;" = 484 sq. ft.

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1920s	1930s	1940s	1990s
1990s	2004	Early 2005	2005
Fireplace and overmantle	Dining Room Colors	Mantelpiece detail 1990s	Mantelpiece detail 2005
Cleaned mantlepiece	Overmantle, 2001	Overmantle, 2005	Etching
Rose back detail	Original flower	Shell deterioration	Ceiling border
Uncleaned versus cleaned	Completed cornice	Blue and white	Cleaned palm panel
Efflorescence in closet	Poultice on efflorescence	Hook on Ceiling	Center of ceiling
Flower detail on ceiling	Leaves and scrollwork	Scrollwork	Mount Vernon
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