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The flanking room to my west is the entrance hallway which is part of the theme of a Neo-classic house- 'the centre hall plan'. And on the far reaches of that would have been the original best parlour or parlour- which in an English home (which this was, designed by the Adams' brothers). You would have had domestic staff greet guests at the front centre door and they saw a couch all the way symmetrically well-balanced. People would have been brought into the home and would've waited in the centre hall to be received or in the parlour- probably this dining room would have been semiprivate and if you were an invited guest you would have been entertained here.