Centre Hill Double Entry

Oh, this place is so cool!  I could do about a dozen posts about this place!  Now, would that be fair to you?  or Centre Hill?  Probably not.  So let us suffice with a couple of photos on this floor and on the second floor.  If you're intrigued and want to see more, well, you'll just have to go there yourself!

Let's see.  Where to start and what to leave out.  Goodness.  Hmmmm.  Well, I guess a sampling of "unique" would be a good place to start:

Photos Courtesy of the Petersburg Museums, 

City of Petersburg, VA

I have never seen a sofa with huge round wooden arms like this  The wood finish is beautiful!  The carved detail on the face of these arms and across the front at the legs is great!  And notice, in the top picture, that the center of those arms is a drawer.  Now, you tell me.  How often have you seen a sofa like this?

In the south parlor there is an elaborately decorated grand piano, a harp, a floor lamp unlike any I've seen before...

In the dining room, how about a floor plate under the table that the person sitting at the head of the table can tap and ring for a servant, (remember the date of construction), an enormous side board, elegant mantle pieces, wonderful woodwork in the trim and fireplace, inside the fireplace is a forerunner of today's microwave...

In the library, several unique chairs including a small folding Moorish chair with beautiful inlay...