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Many will have visited Carlyle House in Alexandria, built within a decade of this place—or Gunston Hall, George Mason’s home not far from Mt. Vernon, also of the period of Fairfax House. The restoration of this exceptional structure—we are assured the finest of its period in the country—is still in process, and we had the fun of seeing it in the roughest state of being put back together. In the entrance hall, a worker on a ladder with a blow torch was pulling off decades of accumulated wallpaper. In the dining room, the delicately carved floral designs over the doors were stripped naked of their paint clots and awaiting new paint. An authentic kitchen of the period was being installed in what had been a parlour— not at all like the kitchens on our colonial houses of the time. They had stoves here already.
While we were eryoying the exquisite details of the plaster ceiling designs of figures of the goddess Ceres in one room and in another, a goddess representing friendship, I glanced out a window to a neighboring modern building and wondered what it was—three stories high, all red brick with a conspicuous red metal grill guard along an outdoor second story passageway.
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