oting in alternating vertical
and horizontal panels. The stairway rises from about the middle of the
hall in easy steps to the second floor, the spindles are rather
primitive and the entire stairway has a provincial air. The white
baluster rail is matched by a handrail and supported by half a matching
newel post; wherever the cornice breaks, it turns against itself. An
amusing feature, one found sometimes in old houses, is an inside window
opening from the back drawing room into the hallway.

If the stair is simple, certainly the woodwork in the upstairs front
room is most ambitious. Mantel, overmantel and matching cupboards cover
one entire wall, the chimney end of the room. The mantel is flanked by
two fluted pilasters, reaching from floor to denticulated cornice. Above
the shelf is a rectangular dog-eared panel, in each of the four ears of
which is a rosette. Under the shelf, oblong panels carry out the same
design, divided by a carved half urn. The shelf is supported by consoles
and decorated by a fret that returns around the urn. The cupboards on
each side of the mantel have, at the top, circular glass doors,
surmounted by an arch and keystone. The bottom doors are wood paneled.
The remainder of the woodwork is conventional, plain chair rail,
baseboard and trim.

[Illustration: Dr. Brown's upstairs parlor]

The kitchen with its Dutch oven in the great brick chimney; the large
fireplace where the old crane still hangs sturdily enough to support
Mrs. Brown's best dinner, are in an excellent state of preservation. One
is intrigued by some very ancient and peculiar waterworks that formed a
part of the sanitary equipment in the culinary department and which
function to this day. There is a heavy hand-hewn stone sink and a copper
caldron with its own firebox and ashpit. Formerly a large oaken bathtub
stood in the back room off the kitchen and the water heated in the
copper caldron was available to both rooms. An old brass spigot that
served the bathtub remains.

At Dr. Brown's death the house passed to his widow. She left it in trust
for her daughter, Sarah Maynadier, and the Maynadier grandchildren at
her death in 1813. The house remained in the Maynadier family until
April 26, 1842, when the property was purchased by James Green for
seventeen hundred dollars. In 1940, the present owners, the Honorable
and Mrs. H.R. Tolley, acquired the property.

Dr. Brown's home has fallen into sympathetic hands. Today Queen Anne