Revolutionary: Award Winning Guest Suite, "After"

Shown here is the desk alcove from the award-winning Pennsylvania Room, with an antique desk and George III chair, and a portrait of Major James Reid, from the Anderson House museum collection, Washington, D.C. This space features the naval history of Pennsylvania in the Revolutionary War, including portraits of John Paul Jones, and John Barry (called the Father of the American Navy), and a a painting of the battle of the BonHomme Richard against the Serapis. Books added to the space also tell the history of Pennsylvania and the Revolutionary War. The chandelier was found in an antique store in New Jersey. Since this space had once been a linen closet (prior to the previous renovation), there was no crown moulding. With such a small area (the room is square, and only looks rectangular due to the wide angle lens) the ceiling was visually lowered by creating a tray effect with a wallpaper used on the ceiling and partway down the wall, adding a paintable border to appear as if it were crown moulding, and a wallpaper below it in the light blue of the adjacent bedspread and draperies, a color associated with the Society of the Cincinnati. The antique chair's seat was rewebbed for better support. The exposed pipe on the wall on the left was painted the same color as the wallcovering (a much closer match in person than in this photograph). Bob Narod, Photographer, LLC