HOUSE TOUR . IV
(The Main Floor: the Great Room,
the Vestibule & the Hallway / the Staircase)
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THE GREAT ROOM
The Great Room
as seen from the door to the Dining
Room
The Great Room
as seen from door to the Hallway
The Great Room
as seen from its southeast corner
Photographs and commentary about
the Great Room in the 1930s
from the mother of Charles Robb, former U.S. Senator from
Virginia,
who lived and was married there.
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The VESTIBULE
The Vestibule as seen
from the Stoop
with the two front doors fully open
to show the interior door going to the Hallway.
Inside The vestibule had once,
to the left,
been an armoire for guests to place their coats
and, to the right, hanging on the east wall,
had hung a very large framed aerial photograph
of the entire Georgetown neighborhood, ca. 1955,
that clearly showed the House
when its front was still the unpainted red brick.
The lighted ceiling lamp shown now in the Vestibule
originally had hung in the
Hallway,
but by the mid-1960s was moved here
to make way for the survivor of the
two chandeliers that were once in The
Great Room.
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The HALLWAY / The STAIRCASE
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The Hallway and Main
Staircase,.................The
rear of the Hallway,
as seen from the base of the staircase...............as seen from the base of the
staircase
looking towards the
Vestibule...............looking towards the Library
The chandelier was one of a pair that....................At the left, under the
staircase
that were hanging in the Great
Room.......................is the House's pay
telephone
even before Delta Phi Epsilon...............................affixed in a
former doorway
..........bought this
House in 1940..............................to the
House's onetime west porch.
In the late 1960s, one was..............................................................(See photo below)
stolen during a party. .............................................................................
The remaining chandelier.............................................................................
was then moved out to............................................................................
the Hallway (and the fixture
........................................................................
that had been in the Hallway .......................................................................
was put in the
Vestibule)............................................................................
The former west wall doorway
Click here to learn about this, and also another, mystery doorway
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