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Hamill House Conservatory This lovely greenhouse was made by Lord & Burnham, exhibitors at the 1876 Centennial Exhibition in Philadelphia, which Hamill attended. That may have inspired him to include this original room in the 1879 expansion of his home. The sash ventilators along the top are operable, as they were in 1879, and open the Conservatory to the fresh mountain air.The cast iron painted fernery and fountain is full of blooming plants and runs today. The floor in the Conservatory is gaped, with alternating boards of walnut and oak, which create air space to a brick floored basement below. |