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Music Room
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An ornate chandelier with gas light style shades and many prisms dominates a photograph of the music room at Black Point. There is a painted frieze below the crown molding over the fireplace just above a large landscape painting. The fireplace surround is covered with decorative tiles. There are lace curtains at the windows in the bay at the end of the room. A lamp with a leaded glass shade is on a small table.
1959
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Music Room
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Dining Room at Wadsworth Hall
1910
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Music Room at Black Point
1942
An oval portrait of Emma Seipp Schmidt hangs above a cabinet in the music room at Black Point. A modern style settee stands in the large window bay.
