I possess a partiality for irregular houses, when you go up and down steps, out of one room into another and when you come upon more rooms when you think you have seen all there are, and where then is a bountiful provision of little halls & passages, and where you find older rooms in unexpected places with lattice windows and green growth pressing through them.
Walking Canes and Sticks
c. 1825 - 1865
Located in the stairway are eighteen walking canes and sticks. Canes owned by Judge Elijah Miller and Sec. Wm. H. Seward. Mostly wooden sticks with various heads - gold, ivory, wood.
Engraving on some - "Ed to Wm" - "E. Miller" - "To a Patriot from a Friend, 1854."