Furniture
Warder's daughter Alice (1877-1952) and diplomat John Work Garrett (1872-1942) had their wedding at the house in December 1908, with then-First Lady Edith Roosevelt in attendance. Following Ambassador Garrett's inheritance of his family's mansion, "Evergreen," custom-made furnishings from the Warder House were moved to Baltimore.
The Garrett mansion is now Johns Hopkins University's Evergreen Museum & Library. Its Warder pieces include a set of Thomas Sheraton-inspired chairs from the DC house's diningroom, an ornately inlaid center table from the DC house's drawingroom, and a handsome pair of possibly-architect-designed 'throne' chairs, carved with sunflowers, an ornate "W," and the year 1887. One of the dining chairs is in the collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
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