Gunston Hall, a Georgian mansion owned by George Mason, features a central hallway that runs the length of the first floor and exhibits French and neoclassical influences.
The formal dining room at Gunston Hall is painted a bright yellow ochre with chinoiserie details. Chinese-style ornamentation was popular in Great Britain in the 1700s, but was virtually unknown in America.
The Little Parlor, as it was called by George Mason, is a simply furnished, informal room in Gunston Hall. The room served as a family dining room and an office for Mason.
The formal, Palladian-style room in Gunston Hall features rococo woodwork. Two gifted English indentured servants, carpenter and joiner William Buckland and master carver William Bernard Sears, were responsible for the interior work, helping to make Gunston Hall one of the finest homes in colonial America.
