Barbara's Room

Currently, Barbara’s Room is not being rented to overnight guests. Intricate hand-painted artwork from the 1800 to 1840 time period was discovered on the walls of this bedroom. Witness history being revealed in this room.

The artwork is being studied and the patterns are being documented. For the past two years Steve Mellinger, an artist from Parkesburg, PA, has been assisting in the study and documentation of this artwork. We now have a partial interpretation developed to aid this study.


Image 1: Typical Roses and Tassels at the wall / ceiling. (Photo: Kelly Hoover - Klick Photo, Intercourse, PA.)


Image 2: Typical border located around all windows and top of chair rail. (Photo: Kelly Hoover - Klick Photo, Intercourse, PA.)


Image 3: A corner at the window. (Photo: Kelly Hoover - Klick Photo, Intercourse, PA.)


Image 4: A typical urn found below the chair rail. (Photo: Kelly Hoover - Klick Photo, Intercourse, PA.)


Image 5: Steve Mellinger studying the colors of the artwork.


Image 6: Steve Mellinger adding color to the pencil sketch. He is interpreting the colors found at the same border shown above in Image 2.


Image 7: Steve Mellinger adding color to the pencil sketch. He is interpreting the colors found at the same corner shown above in Image 3.



Last updated 5/15/04