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Lecoutour Brothers Stair Manufacturing Company Trade Catalog, 1908
For large parties, Mrs. McFaddin would sometimes use the breakfast room as a place from which to serve coffee and dessert. This Viennese-inspired coffee pot, cup, and saucer are typical of porcelain coffee services of the early 1920s. |
This fashionable room was used for intimate meals and small luncheons, as
well as for receptions involving all public rooms in the house, and
tradition that holds that both Mr. McFaddin and Mr. Ward took their breakfast here.
At times, the ladies were served breakfast upstairs on trays. Millwork and art glass
for these rooms, which were added by the McFaddins after they moved in, came
from the Lecoutour Brothers Stair manufacturing Company, St. Louis,
Missouri.
Millwork
companies toward the end of the nineteenth century continued to become more
and more specialized. Unlike mail-order companies such as Sears and
Montgomery Ward, the Lecoutour Brothers firm specialized in custom-made or
‘odd work,’ as they termed it for their clients. They provided the flooring,
wainscoting, columns, art glass, and Italian marble for this combination of
rooms based on Mauer’s original plans, which are part of the archival
collection.