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Virtual Tour: Ballroom
Ballroom
Photo © 2000 Lisa LeDrew.
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The Ballroom was originally called the Second Drawing Room and contains a range
of interesting furniture
including some pieces, such as the drop leaf table, which may have come
from Fort Townshend - the Governor's residence from 1816-1831. That was a
somewhat drafty house and the first resident Governor died there, after
Newfoundland (and he in particular) experienced a dreadful winter of cold,
fires and poverty, in February of 1818.
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Drop Leaf Table
Table may have originally belonged to the Fort Townshend residence.
Photo © 2000 Newfoundland and Labrador Heritage Web Site.
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Rosewood Sofa Table
Table is part of the 1829 inventory.
Photo © 2000 Newfoundland and Labrador Heritage Web Site.
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Rosewood Chiffonier
Chiffonier may have come from the Fort Townshend residence.
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The two rosewood sofa tables are from the 1829 inventory and the rosewood
chiffonier, recently given to Government House, is reported to have come
from an earlier governor and was purchased (as was common with people
returning to England after service in Newfoundland in the early 19th
century) by a local person and remained at Winterton on Winter Avenue
until rescued when fire destroyed that house in 1995.
The upholstered Victorian furniture dates from the 1870-80 and must
represent a desire by one of the governors to modernize. This is a very
fine suite of furniture with Eastlake style decoration and consists of
sofas, armchairs and a large number of delicate drawing-room chairs.
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Ballroom Ceiling
The most elaborate of the Pindikowsky ceilings.
Photo © 2000 Newfoundland and Labrador Heritage Web Site.
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The ceiling in this room is the most elaborate of all Pindikowsky's work
in the house and takes it motifs from the Pompeian style fashionable in the
18th century but revived in the 19th.
August, 2000.
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