le-faced fireplace opening, beautiful brass
fender and andirons. The symmetrical arrangement of two flanking china
closets, with round-headed double doors recalling those shown at Whitby
Hall and Mount Pleasant, is most effective. The work is executed in a
masterly manner, the proportions being well calculated and the precision
of the hand tooling remarkably well maintained. Both the doors and
embrasured windows of this room merit careful study.

Of more modest, but generally similar treatment, is the paneling of the
reception room at Stenton, the fireplace opening here having been closed
for installation of a Franklin stove.

At Whitby Hall there are two interesting and characteristic examples of
embrasured windows with paneled jambs and soffits, and molded architrave
casings. In the dining room the embrasures are cased down to the window
seats, while in the parlor the casings with their broader sections at
top and bottom do not extend below the surbase, although the embrasure
continues to the floor. In this latter room one of the Colonial
builder's favorite motives, ever recurring with minor variations
throughout many houses, occupies the string course of the cornice. This
double denticulated member or Grecian fret band is formed by vertical
cross cuttings, alternately from top and bottom of a square molding, the
plain ogee molding beneath giving it just the proper emphasis.

Conforming to the characteristic panel arrangement of the time, most of
the inside doors of Philadelphia have six panels, the upper pair being
not quite square and the two lower pairs being oblong, the middle pair
being longer than the lower. Like outside doors they were for the most
part molded and raised with broad bevels, although occasionally, as on
the second floor at Mount Pleasant, they were flat and bolection molded,
giving the door a considerably different aspect. Generally speaking, the
workmanship was excellent, the beveling of the panels and the molding of
the stiles and rails manifesting the utmost painstaking. A simple knob
and key-plate, usually of brass, completed the complement of hardware,
apart from the H hinges of early years and the butts which soon
followed. It will be noted that all of these six-panel doors have stiles
and muntins of virtually equal width, any variation being slightly wider
stiles. Top and frieze rails are alike and about the same width as the
muntin, but the bottom rail is somewhat broader and the lock ra