Collections record Beta
Collection Record Detail
Object Name
Side Chair
Object Number
1998-17-2
Description
One of two side chairs, cherry with five straight vertical slat back, stiles slant slightly out from body, back legs curve outward from seat and rake back below seat. The outer edges of front legs, crest rail, stiles, seat rail and shoe are molded. Inside legs are chamfered. Legs have holes for casters.
Comment
Chairs have history associated with Washington's farewell address at Fraunces Tavern on Dec.4, 1783. Chairs at tavern, possibly given as tokens to aides de camps (including Tallmadge and Putnam) or made later to commemorate day. One chair descended from Benjamin Tallmadge. His son Frederick married Elizabeth Canfield. Their daughter Elizabeth married J.P. White. Their daughter Annie Louise White married Frank Underhill. Their daughter Cora Underhill married Jerald Lowe. Her second marriage was to Watson Beach Day. She died in 1960 leaving the chairs to her niece Mrs. Price Glover. The other chair descended from Israel Putnam through Cora Underhill's second husband Watson Beach Day, who was Putnam's descendant.
Category
Date Made
ca. 1783
Dimensions
35" H x 21 1/2" W x 16 3/4" D
Materials
Social Tags (experimental)
