Library

The library is connected with the drawing room by a wide doorway; it may also be entered through a doorway in the hall which is in the wing. The woodwork of the library, as in the rest of the wing, was painted and "grained" to look like oak.

When the DeMenils lived in the house, this room may have been the sitting room or back parlor.  An alcove was added in 1863 to hold Emilie's ferns.  It now holds an architect's desk upon which an antique wheel for newspaper clippings can be found.  The hand painted window shades, a decorative addition of the era.

By the other window is a "Sleepy Hollow" chair, so called because it is like one Washington Irving had."