Clockwise from top left, This handsome bedroom from the Rockwood
Museum in Wilmington, Del. shows the mix of design influences at work
in the 1890s: Chippendale chairs, a Renaissance bed, French mirror and
Oriental hearth rug. A detail of an American Empire sofa in the Old Mer-
chant's House in New York City. Garden chairs catch the morning light
outside Acorn Hall in Morristown, NJ. The highly ornamented Mainstay
Inn in Cape May, NJ. was originally Jackson's Clubhouse, a gentleman's
gambling house.
The Secret Life of Victorian Houses will be available in local book and gift shops and
through the publisher beginning in August 1993. To order directly, contact Elliot & Clark
Publishing, P.O. Box 21365, Washington, DC 20009, telephone 202-387-9805.
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