Restoring the Yellow Chamber 

Opening June 1st…

This year, we will complete the long awaited restoration of our beautiful Yellow Chamber and will announce its completion and launch soon.  Even before the restoration, this room was a visitor favorite! Through the Great Hall and up at the top of the wide stairway is he room we know as the Yellow Chamber. It has been described as the “best-documented bedroom in New England” due to surviving fragments of the original yellow silk and wool damask fabric, original paint, as well as good-sized remnants of the original block-printed and stenciled wallpaper. Two 18th century inventories add the details of how the room was furnished and provide a glimpse of how this room was used, not only as a bedroom for the newly married Samuel and Sarah Catherine Moffat but also as a space to enjoy entertaining close friends.  Thanks to emerging technologies, this room has undergone a restoration which has allowed us to more accurately identify the authentic paint color and to have it mixed and applied as it was originally done. The original floorboards have been returned to their true unpainted state. 
Over the next several months we will introduce the other elements such as the fabric, wallpaper, and the acquisition of proper furnishings to recreate this room’s appearance back to the time before the Revolution.

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