In the dining room, you'll be able to see elegant sets of china, including Wedgwood, Limoges, and Staffordshire. The Lanes purchased the Limoges china during the Civil War.

The staffordshire china, Marmora pattern, is an English bone china that belonged to the Binfords. This set of English china was William Binford's wedding gift to his wife, Elizabeth Jones, on June 7, 1837. William was born in 1801 of Quaker parents in Virginia. Elizabeth was born in Vincennes, Indiana, and was adopted by her aunt Elizabeth Whitlock and uncle Ambrose Whitlock, founder of Crawfordsville. Their wedding was probably the first held in the newly completed St. John's Episcopal church in Crawfordsville. The china was given to the Historical Society in the 1950s by Mary and Augusta Binford, granddaughters of William and Elizabeth.

William Binford with his younger brother Samuel became successful merchants in Crawfordsville and their three-story brick establishment was probably the first brick structure in the early village. Samuel Binford was married on September 7, 1837 to Sarah Snook, daughter of Dr. Henry T. Snook, and both brothers' families made their homes in the upper stories of the new brick building which drew admiring visitors from miles around because of the grand staircase in the middle of the merchants' store room.

The tureen was the Elston family tureen. Josiah Wedgwood (1730-1795) of Staffordshire, England perfected the method for this example of Queensware in 1765.

Also see the theorems painted by Joanna at age 16 while she was a student at the Science Hill girl's finishing school in Shelbyville, Kentucky in 1842

The fireplace is the original with simple Federalist style moldings. Double hearth and chimney.

The banquet table has two extensions, cherry reproductions, made by Mr. Umphreys to match those that were originally in the Elston home.

Other items of interest:

* Dining room crystal.
* Sideboard. Made by Wiley Kenyon, a local cabinet maker in 1840.
* Side chairs. Queen Ann reproductions, originally in the Wallace home. The seats are covered in a needlepoint reproduction of Mrs. Lane's theorems handmade by the Art League in 1978.
* Dessert china. Very old Haviland set given to Joanna as wedding gift from her grandmother.
* Pot de Creme. A gift to Susan Wallace from Louise Hawkins Canby. Louise was married to Edward Canby, a West Point graduate and later a Civil War General, in this room. Joanna and Susan were present. They were young girls at the time.
* Joanna Lane circa 1860.