The Thomas Stone Chippendale carved walnut open armchair, Baltimore, Maryland circa 1775

repair to splat.

Originally owned by Thomas Stone and his wife Margaret, at their home, Haberdeventure, in Charles County, Maryland;
Descended in their family to Louise Stone Matthews;
To the present owner, her nephew

Museum of Early Southern Decorative Arts files, F7854
Petravage, Carol. Historic Furnishings Report: Haberdeventure, Thomas Stone National Historic Site, Port Tobacco, Maryland. Harpers Ferry Center: National Park Service, 1999

This armchair was originally owned by Thomas Stone (1743-1787), a signer of the Declaration of Independence, member of the Continental Congress, and drafter of the Articles of the Confederation, and his wife Margaret (d. 1787), at their home Haberdeventure in Charles County, Maryland.  Haberdeventure was built in 1771, nearly destroyed by a fire in 1977, and restored in 1997. The house is now a National Historic Site owned by the National Park Service, United States Department of the Interior. This armchair is listed in Historic Furnishings Report: Haberdeventure, Thomas Stone National Historic Site, Port Tobacco, Maryland (1999) by Carol Petravage, Staff Curator. The original parlor of Haberdeventure, which was dismantled and sold to the Baltimore Museum of Art in 1928, was recreated during the restoration.  Twelve reproduction armchairs patterned after the present chair stand among the furnishings in the new parlor today.

Photographs and information on this chair are in the collection of the Museum of Early Southern Decorative Arts in Winston Salem, North Carolina (MESDA, F7854).