Small accent lamps, sometimes with LED bulbs, add pizzazz to bookshelves and fireplace mantels.

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Within the high-ceilinged rooms, with their battered colonial mantels and broken decorations of Adam designs in plaster, governors had come and gone, and ambassadors of kings had schemed and danced.

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An open double parlor, beautiful (but not fussy) plaster cornices and medallions, aged pine floors, and 7 restored limestone mantels are just a few of the special details of this magnificent house.

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Fireplaces have beach pebbles embedded in the mantels.

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With the introduction of lighter and hardier plastics in the 1960s, old wooden decoys were retired: tossed in garages, left on the water or put up on mantels, mainly forgotten except by hunters who saw sentimental value in them.

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