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THE PLAN

SECTION E: RECOMMENDED FURNISHINGS (continued)

FLOOR COVERINGS AND WALLPAPER: FIRST FLOOR: ROOMS A-D, F

FLOOR COVERINGS AND WALLPAPER: FIRST FLOOR: ROOMS A-D, F

Parlors

Object: A.42; B.13 — Brussels Carpet
Date: ca. 1850-1860
Brief Description: The carpeting should be reproduced from mid-nineteenth-century examples, similar in design to the Leslie's Illustrated Newspaper drawings. By basing the reproduction on an actual example, a more successful treatment of color and design can be achieved. The front and back parlors have the same design.
Location: Wall-to-wall.
Documentation: Leslie's Illustrated Newspaper, March 9, 1861. (See pp. 145-147 for discussion of original evidence for floor coverings.)
Source: To be acquired (reproduction).


Object: A.43; B.14 — Three Rugs
Date: ca. 1850-1860
Brief Description: Two hearth rugs and one smaller area rug, hooked, yarn sewn, or small pieces of matching Brussels.
Location: Hearths and in front of the table between the windows in the front parlor.
Documentation: Leslie's Illustrated Newspaper, March 9, 1861. (See pp. 145-147 for discussion of original evidence for floor coverings.)
Source: To be acquired (antique, if possible).


Object: A.44; B.15 — Wallpaper
Date: ca. 1850-1860
Brief Description: The wallpaper should be reproduced similar in design to the Leslie's Illustrated Newspaper drawings and the 1865 stereoscope views but (if possible) should be based on actual period wallpapers.
Location: All walls.
Documentation: Leslie's Illustrated Newspaper, March 9, 1861. (See pp. 147-149 for a discussion of original evidence for wallpapers.)
Source: To be acquired (reproduction).


Sitting Room

Object: C.19 — Ingrain Carpet
Date: ca. 1850-1860
Brief Description: The carpeting should be reproduced from mid-nineteenth-century examples, similar in design to the Leslie's Illustrated Newspaper drawings. By basing the reproduction on an actual example, a more successful treatment of color and design can be achieved.
Location: Wall-to-wall.
Documentation: Leslie's Illustrated Newspaper, March 9, 1861. (See pp. 145-147 for discussion of original evidence for floor coverings.)
Source: To be acquired (reproduction).


Object: C.20 — Hearth Rug
Date: ca. 1850-1860
Brief Description: One hooked hearth rug.
Location: Hearth.
Documentation: Leslie's Illustrated Newspaper, March 9, 1861. (See pp. 145-147 for discussion 'of original evidence for floor coverings.)
Source: To be acquired (antique).


Object: C.21 — Wallpaper
Date: ca. 1850-1860
Brief Description: The wallpaper should be reproduced similar in design to the Leslie's Illustrated Newspaper drawings but (if possible) should be based on actual period wallpapers.
Location: All walls.
Documentation: Leslie's Illustrated Newspaper, March 9, 1861. (See pp. 147-149 for a discussion of original evidence for wallpapers.)
Source: To be acquired (reproduction).


Dining Room

Object: D.24 — Ingrain Carpet
Date: ca. 1850-1860
Brief Description: The household guides recommend that dining room ingrains be dark colored.
Location: Wall-to-wall.
Documentation: Period practice. Dining rooms did not usually have expensive floor coverings because of food spillage and because the dining room in the average house was not one of the formal rooms used for entertaining. In houses smaller than the Lincolns, the dining room often doubled as back parlor or family sitting room.
Source: To be acquired (reproduction).


Object: D.25 — Wallpaper
Date: ca. 1850-1860
Brief Description: It is recommended that the design of the wallpaper for this room be similar to the one shown in the 1865 stereoscope view but based on an actual period wallpaper.
Location: All walls.
Documentation: See pp. 145-149 for a discussion of the original evidence for wallpaper in the Lincoln home.
Source: To be acquired (reproduction).


Hallway

Object: F.7 — Brussels Carpet
Date: ca. 1850-1860
Brief Description: A dark colored Brussels carpet in a period pattern with colors corresponding to wallpaper.
Location: Wall-to-wall.
Documentation: Period practice. Hallway floor coverings during the mid-nineteenth century were usually floor cloth, rag or venetian, or ingrain carpet. The more expensive Brussels was rarely used in areas of high traffic. Brussels, however, is recommended here because of the heavy visitor traffic. The more appropriate floor coverings would not withstand heavy usage.
Source: To be acquired (reproduction).


Object: F.8 — Wallpaper
Date: ca. 1850-1860
Brief Description: A period design suitable for a hallway (i.e. a geometric pattern) should be reproduced.
Location: All walls.
Documentation: See pp. 147-149 for a discussion of the original evidence for wallpaper in the Lincoln home.
Source: To be acquired (reproduction).
FLOOR COVERINGS AND WALLPAPER: FIRST FLOOR: ROOMS A-D, F

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