Built-ins & Bookcases · Victorian (Queen Anne, Eastlake)
Dining Room Built-ins, Molly Brown House, Denver
The dining room of the Molly Brown House Museum in Denver, showing a built-in mirrored sideboard and a glazed china cabinet set into the room's late-Victorian woodwork.
Design characteristics
Victorian dining rooms were designed around storage for china, silver and linens. In the Molly Brown House, completed in 1889, a mirrored sideboard and a glazed china cabinet are integrated with the room's woodwork, and a bay of tall windows brings in light. The museum displays period clothing in the room, as seen here. Built-in dining storage is one of the most practical features to recreate in an older Denver home, and it works equally well as a coffee bar or butler's pantry today.
Classification
- Category
- Built-ins & Bookcases
- Material
- Oak
- Motifs
- Wainscot
- Photograph
- 2007
- Photographer
- unknown
- Evidence
- Photograph of a documented interior or object
- Source
- Wikimedia Commons
Architectural context
Carved mantels, layered trim and dark, decorative hardwoods. Britain and the United States · c. 1837–1901.
