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Lincoln Home
Historic Furnishings Report |
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THE PLAN
SECTION E: RECOMMENDED FURNISHINGS (continued)
FLOOR COVERINGS AND WALLPAPER: SECOND FLOOR: ROOMS G-L
| FLOOR COVERINGS AND WALLPAPER: SECOND FLOOR: ROOMS G-L | |
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HALLWAYS, STAIRS | |
| Object: | L.9 — Carpet (modern, of commercial grade) |
| Date: | ca. 1850-1860 |
| Brief Description: | Many modern Brussels carpets have patterns similar to ingrain patterns. One of these should be used. A suitable alternative would be a plain color taken from the bedroom ingrains. |
| Location: | First and second floor hallways, stairway. |
| Documentation: | Period practice. Hallway floor coverings during the mid-nineteenth century were usually floor cloth, rag or venetian, or ingrain carpet. The more expensive Brussels carpeting was not usually used in these areas of heavy traffic, except in the homes of the very well-to-do. Even in the White House, Mrs. Lincoln used six yards of oilcloth at the front entrance (probably a vestibule area). Oilcloth, rag, and ingrain carpet, however, are all fragile types of floor covering and will not withstand very well the constant visitor traffic at the Lincoln Home. These types of floor coverings are also not readily available today and reproduction is very costly. Brussels carpet is more readily available, less expensive, and much sturdier. |
| Source: | To be acquired (antique). |
| Object: | L.10 —; Wallpaper |
| Date: | 1850-1860 |
| Brief Description: | Second floor hallway papers should be a continuation of the paper used in the first floor hallway. |
| Location: | Second floor hallways. |
| Documentation: | Period practice, and see pp. 147-149 for evidence of wallpaper used at the Lincoln home. |
| Source: | To be acquired (reproduction). |
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BEDROOMS | |
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The second floor, with the exceptions of the boys' room and maid's room, should be carpeted with reproduction ingrain carpeting, each room wall-to-wall. A higher quality ingrain in a pattern different from that used in the other rooms should be used in the two front bedrooms. Mary's room can be of the same pattern. The boys' and maid's rooms should have a piece of rag carpeting, not wall-to-wall. A section of the carpeting now in the maid's room is suitable. Most of the ingrain carpeting in place at this time appears to date from the last quarter of the nineteenth century and is not suitable for the Lincoln Home. One exception is the carpeting in Mrs. Lincoln's bedroom. This carpet could remain in place until its condition becomes too poor for exhibit purposes. | |
| Object: | J.20; K.17 —; Rag Carpeting |
| Date: | ca. 1850-1860 |
| Location: | Boys' room and the maid's room. |
| Brief Description: | Plain woven striped carpeting filled with wefts of either rags or woolen yarn. |
| Documentation: | Period practice. Rag carpeting was the least expensive alternative for floor coverings. |
| Source: | To be acquired (reproduction). |
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BEDROOMS (Lincoln's Room, Guest Room, Mary's Room, and Boys' Room) | |
| Object: | H.26; 1.35; J.21 —; Wallpaper |
| Date: | ca. 1850-1860 |
| Brief Description: | All papers should be reproductions based on period designs (with the exception of Lincoln's room, the paper of which should remain). |
| Location: | Guest room, Mary's room, and the boys' room. |
| Documentation: | See pp. 147-149 for a discussion of the original evidence for wallpaper in the Lincoln home. |
| Source: | To be acquired (reproduction). |
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