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OPPOSITE PAGE TOP – Front Parlor. This room features original wall coverings
and long leaf pine floors and trim work. The furniture is Eastlake style and is
original to the Wells family.
OPPOSITE PAGE BOTTOM – Dining Room. This room has the original
wallpaper imported from France. During tours the sugar bowl buried during
the runaway scrape in 1836 is retrieved from secured storage and put on
display.
THIS PAGE – Bedroom. This dresser was brought by covered wagon when the
family settled near Green DeWitt's colony in 1825. This room includes an Italian
Carrera marble fireplace imported when the house was built. The mantel clock
was signed and dated in 1891 when the Wells family moved into the house.
This bed was purchased in New Orleans in 1860. This room also includes other
furnishings such as a cradle, child's rocking chair, and dolphin tail dresser
that are included in the book Texas Furniture-The Cabinet Makers and their
Furniture 1840-1880 by Lon Taylor and David B. Warren with foreword by Miss
Ima Hogg.
Photographs by Clinton Hille
