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Identifier: magazineofamericv11stev (find matches)
Title: The magazine of American history with notes and queries
Year: 1877 (1870s)
Authors: Stevens, John Austin, 1827-1910. ed. cn DeCosta, B. F. (Benjamin Franklin), 1831-1904. ed. cn Johnston, Henry Phelps, 1842-1923, ed. cn Lamb, Martha J. (Martha Joanna), 1829-1893. ed. cn Pond, Nathan Gillett, 1832-1894 ed Abbatt, William, 1851-1935, comp
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Publisher: New York : A.S. Barnes
Contributing Library: Allen County Public Library Genealogy Center
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THE VAN RENSSELAER MANOR 3 from the grounds. It has not been inhabited for some half a dozenyears—although still in possession of the Van Rensselaer family—but isin charge of the inmates of a lodge by the gateway, from which theapproach through a park of magnificent old trees is imposing in theextreme. Ascending the front steps and passing the massive portals we find thegreat entrance hall a full third broader than the average city house, or tobe more explicit, some thirty-two or thirty-three feet wide. It is deco-rated with the veritable paper imported from Holland before the Ameri-
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can Revolution, the design being such thatit has the appearance of an antique fresco. In thepalmy days of the manor a large piece of statuary stood 4 THE VAN RENSSELAER MANOR in the center of this hall, and choice works of art were arranged onevery side. The pedestals, or some of them, remain ; and a few chairsand sofas, relics of early manufacture, and of a fashion we mightany of us rejoice to see in vogue in our own time. On both sidesof the entrance hall are two suites of apartments, each some thirty-five feet wide. Those to the right include the spacious drawing-rooms,the state bedroom of the mansion, and an immense library withbook-cases of highly polished dark wood in each of its four corners—cov-ering not less than sixty or seventy feet of the wall space. The ceilingsare as lofty in proportion as the rooms are extensive ; and the finest andmost exquisite of old-time hand wood-carving may be studied on everyside. To the left of the central hall, in front, is a large, pretentio

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