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Fortunately for the Restoration Team these questions were answered when the archaeologists conducted a very thorough investigation of Montpelier’s cellar.  During their excavations they found a root cellar that had been dug into the earthen floor of the ca. 1764 cellar.  Lining the bottom of this cellar were two large pieces of St. Bee’s sandstone, the same stone used for the Drawing Room’s Madison-era surround and other ca. 1764 hearths in the Mansion.  Could these pieces of stone have once been used as the hearth in the Drawing room?

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Mason Ray Canetti tracing the marks found on the bottom of the stone discovered in the cellar by Montpelier's archaeologists.