3 Chapin Parkway - Table of Contents ................ Furniture Dictionary

Samuel Risman  House
3 Chapin Parkway , Buffalo, NY

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Dining room
Family room
Second floor

Dining room View of dining room from kitchen Room in background:  Family room Tiger maple  table top Tiger maple table with  turned leg ending in arrow foot Queen Anne style side chair:  Vase-shaped splat ...  Cane seat  ...  Turned legs  ...  Box stretchers  ... Four details below: Detail # 1 - Queen Anne style side chair:  Tiger maple top rail  and vase-shaped splat Detail # 2 - Queen Anne style side chair:  cane seat Detail #3 - Queen Anne style side chair  ... Turned legs  ...  Front ball feet Detail # 4 - Queen Anne style side chair: Tiger maple Bird's eye maple  sideboard  ... Three details below: Detail # 1 - Bird's eye maple  ...  Oval mounts with bail handle  ...  Reeding Detail # 2 Detail #3 - Tiger maple  side panel  ...  Turned legs ending in  ball feet Note Windsor chair  and grandfather clock (both detailed below:)   Comb-back Windsor chair   ... Two details below: Detail #1 - Comb-back Windsor chair:  Knuckle handhold Detail #2 - Comb-back Windsor chair:  Saddle seat  ...  Turned splayed legs  ...  H-stretcher   Grandfather clock ... Two details below: Detail #1 - Grandfather clock: Finials ... Swan's neck pediment ...  Reeded  columns Detail #2 - Grandfather clock:  Bracket foot Tiger maple corner china cabinet  ...  Two details below: Detail #1 - Tiger maple corner china cabinet  Detail #2 - Tiger maple corner china cabinet  with  ball foot

Family room Tiger maple  double drop leaf table with drawer Note that the right front leg has swung out to support the raised leaf  ... Another view below: Tiger maple  double drop leaf table with drawer ... Note that the right front leg has swung out to support the raised leaf  ...  Note also the single drawer that pulls out at either end Tiger maple  slant top desk  ...  Tambour doors   ...   Two details below:     Detail #1: Tiger maple slant top desk ... Pull-out slide  ...  Rosettes with bail handles pulls Detail #2:    Rosettes with bail handles pulls  ...  Reeded panels

Second floor Colonial Revival  balustrade Palladian window (top spiderweb muntins detailed below:) Spiderweb lead muntins Queen Anne style pine highboy   ...  Two details below: Detail #1: Queen Anne style pine highboy  ...  Shell with ball pull handle  ...  Ornamented apron Detail #2: Queen Anne style pine highboy  ...  Queen Anne style  cabriole legs with  pad feet Master bedroom features ceramic fireplace tiles ...  Two details below: Detail #1 - Ceramic tile fireplace hearth Detail #1 - Ceramic tile fireplace surround detail Tiger maple chest of drawers Shortly after the Restoration in England (1660) the first chest of drawers appeared and were usually fitted with three long drawers and two small ones at the top. The drawer fronts should be graduated in depth with the largest one at the bottom and the smallest at the top, with about one inch in difference in each case.  ...  Detail below: Detail - Tiger maple chest of drawers  ...  Willow mounts with bail handles Drop leaf table  ... Two details below: Detail #1 -  Drop leaf table  ...   Crotch mahogany(?)  veneer on drawers  ...  Mushroom-turned wooden knobs Detail 2 -  Double drop leaf table  ...  Tiger maple turned legs Horse and chest-of-drawers  ...  (Both detailed below:) Tiger maple  ...  Mushroom-turned wooden knobs Mirror on chest-of-drawers  ...  Rope bed  ...  (All detailed below:) Mirror on chest-of-drawers  ...  Acorn(?)  finial Mirror  ...  Tiger maple  ...  Serpentine front Chest-of-drawers   ...  Willow mounts with bail handles Chest-of-drawers   ...  Bracket foot   Tiger maple ...  Rope bed   ...  Headboard  ... Four finials  ...   Two details below: Detail #1 - Tiger maple rope bed  ...  Acorn(?)  finial Detail #2 - Tiger maple rope bed   ...  Note rope holes

The attic of this house contains the original servant’s bells.  The bells are differently pitched – likely to announce which servant was being called, or perhaps which room the servants where being summoned to.