CHAPTER PAGE PREFACE vii I. OLD HOUSES 1 II. COLONIAL DOORWAYS 16 III. DOOR KNOCKERS 29 IV. OLD-TIME GARDENS 41 V. HALLS AND STAIRWAYS 54 VI. FIREPLACES AND MANTELPIECES 63 VII. OLD-TIME WALL PAPERS 79 VIII. OLD CHAIRS AND SOFAS 92 IX. SIDEBOARDS, BUREAUS, TABLES, ETC. 105 X. FOUR-POSTERS 119 XI. MIRRORS 132 XII. OLD-TIME CLOCKS 145 XIII. OLD-TIME LIGHTS 159 XIV. OLD CHINA 172 XV. OLD GLASS 194 XVI. OLD PEWTER 210 XVII. OLD SILVER 223 LIST OF PLATES I. Dodge-Shreves Doorway. Built in 1816 _Frontispiece_ FACING PAGE II. The Warner House, Portsmouth, N. H. Built in 1718 8 III. Middleton House, Bristol, R. I. Built about 1808 9 IV. Indian Hill Farm, West Newbury, Mass. Begun soon after 1650 12 V. Andrew House Doorway, 1818 13 VI. Gardner House Doorway, 1804 22 VII. Doorway of Nathan Robinson House, 1804 23 VIII. Sixteenth Century Knocker, Lion type. Striker, of first type; Georgian Urn type, in use on modern houses; Mexican Knocker of the Hammer type; Hammer type Knocker, Eighteenth Century, Charles P. Waters House 32 IX. Eagle Knocker; Eagle Knocker, Rogers House, Danvers, Mass.; Medusa Head, elaborate early type; Garland type of Knocker 33 X. Whittier Garden, Danvers, Mass. 46 XI. Peabody Garden, Danvers, Mass. 47 XII. Saltonstall Hallway, about 1800 54 XIII. Hallway, Lee House, 1800 55 XIV. Hallway, Tucker House, about 1800 60