Early Sideboards Photos

Early European Renaissance & onward sideboard designs were heavy wooden furniture structures. The word sideboard derived from the fact that serving functions were done on boards or tables off to the side of the room. Such side tables are feature on the actual side table page (see also link below). This page includes such early designs even if of recent revivals.

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Sideboard with pewter plates at Buttolph-Williams House. Wethersfield, CT.	Carved chair & sideboard at Plimouth Plantation. Plymouth, MA.	Flemish ebony & fruitwood sideboard (17thC) at Chepstow. Newport, RI.	Sideboard cabinet in Staiti House at Sam Houston Park. Houston, TX.

Dining room sideboard at Capt. Charles Schreiner Mansion. Kerrville, TX.	Dining room sideboard with oil lamp at Capt. Charles Schreiner Mansion. Kerrville, TX.	17th C style sideboard (Berkey & Gay Furniture Co. Grand Rapids MI) in breakfast room at McFaddin-Ward House. Beaumont, TX.	Sideboard with Argand lamps at McCulloch House. Waco, TX.

Sideboard with silver hot water urn plus coffee & tea service at McCulloch House. Waco, TX.	Sideboard with silver in dining room at Glamis Castle. Angus, Scotland.	Renaissance sideboard & pewter at Glamis Castle. Angus, Scotland.	Entrance parlor sideboard with pewter & porcelain collection at Broughton House. Kirkcudbright, Scotland.

Sideboard with pewter, wood & redware at Gladstone's Land tenement house. Edinburgh, Scotland.	Intricately carved sideboard in dining room at Newhailes. Musselburgh, Scotland.	Carvings on sideboard cabinet in High Hall at Culross Palace. Culross, Scotland.	Scottish sideboard (17thC) at Provand's Lordship. Glasgow, Scotland.

Sideboard & table inside governor's house in Fort James at Jamestown Settlement. Jamestown, VA.


See Also:	Sideboard Side Tables