Park Slope (Brooklyn), NY
Here is a living room.
Although the upper molding that is usually a foot down from the ceilingis no longer there, the pictures over the fireplace are an attempt to re-create the *period-look*,
Notice the medallion over the ceiling's light fixture.
The fixture is not exactly surface mounted, but rather somewhat below the ceiling, in that the gas-pipe stub (capped off) is still present.
In the fireplace is a gas-fired radiant heater
used before (and in the beginning of) centralized steam heat.
Centalized steam heat abouded having three or four sources of combustion in each aparmtnet and was safer, overall.
Gas was the *manufactured* type made from *cooking* coal.
At the time, natural gas was burned off as a *nuisance* as crude oil wells were drilled and tapped. Tehy did not know how to tame it and pipe it to a plant to process it.
