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Top, an elaborate foliate medallion anchors a chandelier in a 1914 photograph of the dining room in the circa 1806 Commandant’s
House in Vinegar Hill. Photo via the National Archives. Left, a Colonial Revival medallion in a circa 1901 Benjamin Driesler house in
Prospect Heights. Photo by Susan De Vries. Right, plaster rosette samples from the circa 1909 catalog of the Architectural Decorating
Company of Chicago.
