what we can generally refer to as neoclassism. but france and england had very different ideas and takes on what neoclass cal furniture looked like. from wherever they got design resources, from students that came back from studying in p pompay on their grand tours. mrs. madison, in fact, was a lover of the french style. this is a little bit later. this is from charles percier's design book. it shows you the difference when you look at the thomas hope versus what the french were coming out with. latrobe purchased two massive stone eagles from james draquare, a sculptor in philadelphia, which you see here, and mounted them on the pier gates on the north side of the house. additionally, four marble mantles were ordered from draquare. two were installed. he had a budget in mind and sold two to the u.s. capitol building. as for the furniture, the most iconic pieces were ordered from a pair of brothers in baltimore. of the 50 cabinet makers in baltimore listed at this time, john and hugh finlay were considered the best in what had beco

first my eye was struck by a large neoclassical sideboard that you see here with this -- oops. with this graceful bow front and sleek lines looking for all the world like a sophisticated boston product, but it was made in windsor, vermont. in fact when you look at the inlays here, you can see that three of the inlays go in one direction and the fourth goes in the other. and my assumption there is that this is a person, a cabinetmaker who actually didn't make lots of sideboards. the fact that he was m was muc familiar than his metropolitan colleague, and that accounts for some of the variances in construction. at the other end of the museum i noticed a musical tall clock built by a vermont clock making partnership. it boasted a calendar wheel, a moon dial and played seven tunes each with for a different day of the week with a psalm for sunday. then i noticed a large -- really not just a large -- a massive desk and inpsych low ped ya filled book case that you see before you, really dominating a whole corner of the room where the museum had reconstructed the interior of a vermont