There would have been a giant pier mirror there originally," he said, "but it wouldn't have had a slender pink frame.

The mirror, called a pier mirror, is mounted between two windows; it creates the illusion of a third window between the two others.

He went into the house, pausing in the hail only long enough to see his pale broken face glare at him for an instant from the pier mirror.

"But think of poor old Lang," Kerry said, adjusting his hat at a rakish angle and surveying himself in the long pier mirror.

Antique and family pieces, which include a pier mirror, are few but interesting.

Decorative details from the early 19th century are intact, including impressive marble and wooden fireplaces, pier mirror and floor-to-ceiling parlor windows.

The pier mirror in the front hall still has its brass hat rack, and the wainscot covering has an embossed rivet-head design.

The first-story hallway has built-in gun cabinets and a 19th-century pier mirror (the latter added in 1958).

The mantelpiece in the dining room is made from marbelized slate and has an original pier mirror, located between the two windows on the dining room's north wall.

A 19th-century pier mirror faces a nightclub-modern rest-room entrance.