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The so-called Gilead room consists of the wall paneling, floor, fireplace, and summer beam from the parlor of an eighteenth-century house in Hebron, Connecticut. Yale purchased the room’s fittings in 1930, but they have been held in storage ever since without being assembled. Curators now plan to install the room in the University Art Gallery. A team of conservators spent the past year restoring the pieces and mounting a trial reassembly on the West Campus.
Photograph ©Christopher Gardner
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