The Lounge

In the Victorian era, after dinner the gentlemen would leave the dining room for brandy or port, “masculine” conversation and to smoke. A separate room was used because it was not acceptable to rejoin the ladies with clothes reeking of cigars; a man who smoked a cigar in his study or billiard room would put on a smoking jacket. The Endicott’s used the bookcases in this room to store their Horticultural books.
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