Drawing room at Gaineswood, an antebellum mansion in Demopolis, Alabama.
"Twenty by thirty feet, the room is gorgeously furnished, and at either end has identical gray marble mantels, with wreathed rosettes decorating the head slabs. The ceiling of this room is fashioned in protruding sections of crossbeams, all highly embossed with plaster designs. The interlacing...
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Alabama Department of Archives and History
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| Summary: | "Twenty by thirty feet, the room is gorgeously furnished, and at either end has identical gray marble mantels, with wreathed rosettes decorating the head slabs. The ceiling of this room is fashioned in protruding sections of crossbeams, all highly embossed with plaster designs. The interlacing of the beams form deep coffers; each of which is studded with dainty rosettes." |
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