The planter's room now functions as a library and holds some of the Grahams' collections including dozens of eighteenth-century walking sticks.

 

The hall is a true central hall with all the rooms, both downstairs and upstairs, opening off it.  The black walnut staircase goes up the outside wall, then turns and goes up along the inside wall, then down the upstairs hall where it turns again and goes to the attic.  The spider-legged walnut candle stand, c. 1800, holds a collection of nineteenth-century candlesticks.  The room at the end, beyond the stairs, was called the "planter's room."

 

The great room has its original paneling on the fireplace wall.  The doors open into windowed closets on either side of the chimney.  An eighteenth-century tilt-top, birdcage piecrust table is in front of the fireplace; above it hangs a portrait of Levi Cathell, an ancestor of Martha's

The dining room with its original fireplace and mantel has been furnished with two tables to afford intimate dinner conversations.  

The built-in corner cupboard in the dining room is original to the house.  Queen Anne in style, it has been painted in two shades of the same color to exaggerate its dimensions.

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