In 1815, one visitor remarked of Jefferson's Entrance Hall: "You enter by a glass folding-door, into a hall which reminds you of Fielding's 'Man of the Mountain' by the strange furniture of its walls. On one side hang the heads and horns of an elk, a deer, and a buffalo; another is covered with curiosities which Lewis and Clark found in their wild and perilous expedition."

Photograph by Robert C. Lautman

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