THE BLUE (OR FORMAL) PARLOR

The details and direct quotes below are from the Historic Rock Ford * A Guide Book * published by the Rock Ford Foundation, Inc 1993.The Guide Book can be purchased at the Rock Ford gift center.

Used for formal entertainment and special events, the Blue Parlor boasted the most expensive furnishing seen on the first floor, with the exception of some of the contents of the dining room. Here the baseboard was marbleized in imitation of King of Prussia marble. The elegant colors of the room are complemented by the reproduction ingrain carpet, which replicates the pattern of a c. 1800 carpet now at Boscobel in the Hudson Valley.

The two gilt framed "pictures" have been identified as the 1798 engravings of John Trumbull's "Death of General Montgomery" and "The Battle of Bunker Hill". Early in 1794, Hand wrote to Philadelphia inquiring about a piano forte - undoubtedly very similar to the one now seen here. It may have been intended as a gift to his daughters, and thus not inventoried.

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