[4] The southeast front parlor is the finest room in the house, with a fireplace surround highlighted by full-height Corinthian pilasters and a wooden entablature.

All of the downstairs rooms have detailed woodwork in the cornice, panelled folding shutters that can be recessed into deep window jambs, and tile surrounding the fireplace.

[4] The dining room, located on the first floor in the southwest corner of the house, contains circa 1818 handblocked wallpaper from the Joseph DuFour Company in Paris, France.

In 1918 he sold it to the Metropolitan Museum of Art, which considered moving it to New York City for display, but this plan was eventually abandoned in favor of in situ preservation.

[1] The home's first resident, Thomas Wentworth, received the house as a wedding present from his parents when he married Anne Tasker, who was from Marblehead, Massachusetts.