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 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.
