Common Rooms at McLallen House

Common Rooms

Although this is a Victorian house our taste runs more to the Arts & Crafts Period. The main dining room table, a Stickley design, can be expanded to accommodate a group of eight comfortably. Nick Gilbert's "Cayuga" reimagines the eponymous lake.

The morning table is set with stoneware suffused with the same saturated colors that cover the walls.

In addition to the main breakfast table we have put two smaller tables in the windows on either side of the fireplace. The tables and chairs are made of West Coast hazelnut. Jody Schwan's "Taughannock Falls" overlooks the proceedings.

The living room is dominated by a large Mission-style Stickley couch and Morris chair. Two birch bookcases built by Bill Stevens were modeled on an Arts & Crafts end table that Deirdre inherited from her grandmother.

Deirdre found the poppy prints on a trip to the San Juan Islands in Washington state.

During breakfast the Mackenzie-Childs enamelware on oval table in the foreground is replaced with an urn of coffee, cream and sugar.

The living room continues the Arts & Crafts theme. Guests should feel free to browse the bookshelves and magazine, look through literature on regional 'attractions' or just take a nap.

The living rooms looks out over the porch to the intersection of Bradley, Old Main and McLallen Streets. Lorren Hammond made our sign frame.

Family groups frequenty convene in the living room in order to catch up with each other and to plan a schedule for their stay.

Pocket doors separate the living and dining rooms. The doors are original, but the historical hardware is gone. The opening is seven feet across.

Kitty Hubbard made a series of high-resolution scans of leaves from a Japanese maple planted by George Eastman. The tree still stands on the grounds of the George Eastman House in Rochester.

The "fiddlehead" newel at the bottom of the front stair is one of the few original elements remaining in the house. The mahogany spindles were replicated and restored in the late 1980s by Doug Austic for the previous owner Greg Hoffmire.

John Tilitz and Bill removed the lineoleum floor left over from the rest home days. Ed Pakkala put in the new one and it was finished by the Ungleichs.

The molding style is called "Egyptian keyhole". It is found locally in many houses built in the 1850s and 1860s. Much of it removed over the years. In the 1980s Doug Austic restored all of it using the molding around the French doors in the living room as a model.

Common Rooms

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