• Early 18th-century, Georgian-style drawing room

Drawing room.
Fireplace with a white Carrara marble mantel

Drawing room.
Marble fireplace

• Egg-and-dart
• Urn
• Ancone

Drawing room.
The room has been painted pale gold to accentuate the colors in the marble,

• Modillions
• Rosettes
• Egg-and-dart
• Corinthian capital

Drawing room.
The ornate moldings are actually plaster although they look like wood.

• Modillions
• Rosettes
• Egg-and-dart
• Broken pediment
• Festoon (swag)

Rotunda.
The Drawing Room opens into a Pompeian style rotunda. Marble pilasters

Rotunda.
The marble fountain is particularly notable for the Tiffany-style glass peacock above it,

Rotunda.

• Marble pilasters with Doric capitals.
• There are six varieties of marble in this room, some American, some imported.

Rotunda.
Tiffany-style glass peacock was once lit from the outside by natural light

Rotunda.
Domed ceiling painted in neo-classical design. The chandelier is of alabaster.

Rotunda.
Detail

Photo taken when Mrs. Knox lived in the house

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Photo taken when Mrs. Knox lived in the house