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In addition to these sources, the team's knowledge of how a room's function in the mid-18th century related to its architectural trim also helped to determine what the conjectural woodwork would look like.  Because the Parlor was the only room to have a cornice, much of the rest of the trim in the space must have also been more elaborate than the trim found elsewhere in the ca. 1764 Montpelier.

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Highly embellished trim from the parlor of an 18th-century house in Albemarle County, Virginia.