3 Chapin Parkway -
Table of Contents
................ Furniture Dictionary
Samuel Risman
House
3
Chapin Parkway ,
Buffalo, NY
On this page, below:
Dining room
Family room
Second floor
Dining
room![]() View of dining room from kitchen ![]() Room in background: Family room ![]() ![]() Tiger maple table top ![]() Tiger maple table with turned leg ending in arrow foot ![]() Queen Anne style side chair: Vase-shaped splat ... Cane seat ... Turned legs ... Box stretchers ... Four details below: ![]() Detail # 1 - Queen Anne style side chair: Tiger maple top rail and vase-shaped splat ![]() Detail # 2 - Queen Anne style side chair: cane seat ![]() Detail #3 - Queen Anne style side chair ... Turned legs ... Front ball feet ![]() Detail # 4 - Queen Anne style side chair: Tiger maple ![]() Bird's eye maple sideboard ... Three details below: ![]() Detail # 1 - Bird's eye maple ... Oval mounts with bail handle ... Reeding ![]() Detail # 2 ![]() Detail #3 - Tiger maple side panel ... Turned legs ending in ball feet ![]() Note Windsor chair and grandfather clock (both detailed below:) ![]() Comb-back Windsor chair ... Two details below: ![]() Detail #1 - Comb-back Windsor chair: Knuckle handhold ![]() Detail #2 - Comb-back Windsor chair: Saddle seat ... Turned splayed legs ... H-stretcher ![]() Grandfather clock ... Two details below: ![]() Detail #1 - Grandfather clock: Finials ... Swan's neck pediment ... Reeded columns ![]() Detail #2 - Grandfather clock: Bracket foot ![]() Tiger maple corner china cabinet ... Two details below: ![]() Detail #1 - Tiger maple corner china cabinet ![]() Detail #2 - Tiger maple corner china cabinet with ball foot |
Family room ![]() ![]() Tiger maple double drop leaf table with drawer Note that the right front leg has swung out to support the raised leaf ... Another view below: ![]() Tiger maple double drop leaf table with drawer ... Note that the right front leg has swung out to support the raised leaf ... Note also the single drawer that pulls out at either end ![]() Tiger maple slant top desk ... Tambour doors ... Two details below: ![]() Detail #1: Tiger maple slant top desk ... Pull-out slide ... Rosettes with bail handles pulls ![]() Detail #2: Rosettes with bail handles pulls ... Reeded panels |
Second
floor![]() Colonial Revival balustrade ![]() Palladian window (top spiderweb muntins detailed below:) ![]() Spiderweb lead muntins ![]() Queen Anne style pine highboy ... Two details below: ![]() Detail #1: Queen Anne style pine highboy ... Shell with ball pull handle ... Ornamented apron ![]() Detail #2: Queen Anne style pine highboy ... Queen Anne style cabriole legs with pad feet ![]() Master bedroom features ceramic fireplace tiles ... Two details below: ![]() Detail #1 - Ceramic tile fireplace hearth ![]() Detail #1 - Ceramic tile fireplace surround detail ![]() Tiger maple chest of drawers Shortly after the Restoration in England (1660) the first chest of drawers appeared and were usually fitted with three long drawers and two small ones at the top. The drawer fronts should be graduated in depth with the largest one at the bottom and the smallest at the top, with about one inch in difference in each case. ... Detail below: ![]() Detail - Tiger maple chest of drawers ... Willow mounts with bail handles ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Drop leaf table ... Two details below: ![]() Detail #1 - Drop leaf table ... Crotch mahogany(?) veneer on drawers ... Mushroom-turned wooden knobs ![]() Detail 2 - Double drop leaf table ... Tiger maple turned legs ![]() Horse and chest-of-drawers ... (Both detailed below:) ![]() ![]() Tiger maple ... Mushroom-turned wooden knobs ![]() Mirror on chest-of-drawers ... Rope bed ... (All detailed below:) ![]() Mirror on chest-of-drawers ... Acorn(?) finial ![]() Mirror ... Tiger maple ... Serpentine front ![]() Chest-of-drawers ... Willow mounts with bail handles ![]() Chest-of-drawers ... Bracket foot ![]() Tiger maple ... Rope bed ... Headboard ... Four finials ... Two details below: ![]() Detail #1 - Tiger maple rope bed ... Acorn(?) finial ![]() Detail #2 - Tiger maple rope bed ... Note rope holes |
![]() The attic of this house contains the original servant’s bells. The bells are differently pitched – likely to announce which servant was being called, or perhaps which room the servants where being summoned to. |