Chairs in Edith's Drawing Room
Turn of the 20th Century "ladies' chairs" were often designed with a low seat to work well with Victorian Era fashions.
Back then ladies often wore elaborate dresses with large layered skirts supported by flexible crinoline frames.
Lower chairs made it easier for ladies to sit and move without excessive bending, or discomfort.
Some were designed to make it easier for ladies to do such things as needlework.
In dressing rooms low slipper chairs allowed ladies to sit comfortably while putting on and taking off stockings and shoes often with the help of a maid.
In this picture you can see the piano and nick nack cabinet that eventually wound up in the North Room.
Years ago rooms like the North Room, Gun Room and Kitchen were much less cluttered.
Jessica Kraft was the first curator and the last personal assistant hired to help Edith answer her correspondence and balance her check book. In 1953 Jessica, with the help of the family, made Sagamore Hill look more open and more livable as a family residence.
The North Room was more accurate with TR’s red Army Presidential Headquarters Banner displayed on the far wall. Old Glory and a copy of the Rough Rider Regimental Flag hung above the entrance. At his death the Rough Rider Regimental was draped over his coffin as he laid in state in the North Room.